Torch relay to be held on Sunday

October 27, 2025

National Games Coordination Office (Hong Kong) Head Yeung Tak-keung: 

The torch relay will start from Admiralty on Hong Kong Island and then pass through the Central & Wan Chai Promenade to Golden Bauhinia Square.

Then we will get on the ferry to Kowloon side, to Tsim Sha Tsui. The route will pass through the Cultural Centre and the Hong Kong Museum of Art and then to Tsim Sha Tsui East. 

Then we will get on the open-deck bus to Kai Tak Sports Park, which is the new landmark for sports and other major events in Hong Kong.

The torch relay route, we hope, can arouse the public’s interest in the 15th National Games and also show the best side of Hong Kong to our Mainland and overseas friends and audience. 

Regarding the traffic impact, the torch relay will be held on a Sunday morning from 9.30am. It will take about two hours. 

Normally on Sunday mornings, the traffic is less busy, so we chose this time for the torch relay. We think that would minimise the disruption to our economic and other activities.

(To watch the full press conference with sign language interpretation, click here.)

A torch relay will be held in Hong Kong, Macau, Guangzhou and Shenzhen this Sunday ahead of the official opening of the 15th National Games on November 9, with 50 torchbearers taking part in the exercise along a 10km route in Hong Kong.

Head of the National Games Coordination Office (Hong Kong) Yeung Tak-keung said at a press briefing today that the relay will start at 9.30am on Sunday and last for about two hours. It will start at the Central Government Offices in Tamar and end at the Kai Tak Sports Park (KTSP).

The route will pass through the Central & Western District Promenade (Central Section), the Wan Chai Temporary Promenade, the Monument in Commemoration of the Return of Hong Kong to China and Golden Bauhinia Square.

The torch will then cross Victoria Harbour by ferry and proceed along its Tsim Sha Tsui route. It will be carried from the Star Ferry Bus Terminus on Salisbury Road to Mody Lane, passing by the Cultural Centre and the Museum of Art. From there, the torch will be taken on an open-top bus to the bus terminal at the KTSP.

The last leg of the route will pass by the Kai Tak Youth Sports Ground and the Kai Tak Sports Avenue, before arriving at KTSP Central Square.

“The torch relay route, we hope, can arouse the public’s interest in the 15th National Games and also show the best side of Hong Kong to our Mainland and overseas friends and audience,” Mr Yeung said.

Stressing that the relay route has been chosen to highlight Hong Kong's unique cultural and sporting characteristics, he said the torchbearers will include representatives from various sectors of the community, including sports, sponsors, volunteers, youths, people with disabilities, and ethnic minorities.

Road sections of the Central & Western District Promenade (Central Section), Golden Bauhinia Square and the Wan Chai Temporary Promenade will be temporarily closed during the relay.

“Normally on Sunday mornings, the traffic is less busy, so we chose this time for the torch relay. We think that would minimise the disruption to our economic and other activities.”