Citybus Route 795X

A Route 795X bus (5685) was stopping at "Valley Road" stop
Route information
Terminus	Oscar by the Sea ↔ So Uk ●
via	Tiu Keng Leng, Tseung Kwan O Town Centre, Yau Ma Tei, Mong Kok, Mei Foo, Cheung Sha Wan Business Area
Distance	To So Uk: 25.3km To Oscar by the Sea: 25.6km
Travelling time	77mins
Commencement date	28 February 2022
Operational information
Current operator	Citybus
Former operator	NWFB (Commencement until June 2023)
Current depot	Tseung Kwan O Depot, West Kowloon Depot
Main Vehicle	5200-5224/520XX, 5518-5582/51155-51208, 5583-5599, 5601-5851
Fare information
Full fare	$12.8
No. of section fare(s)	To So Uk: 1 To Oscar by the Sea: 4 Two-way section fare: 1
Service hours
Origin service time	05:30 - 23:30
Destination service time	06:10 - 00:10
Headway	15-30mins

The New Territories Bus Route 795X is operated by Citybus. It runs between Oscar by the Sea and So Uk, first passing through Tiu Keng Leng and Tseung Kwan O Town Centre before going on to Tseung Kwan O Tunnel, Kai Tak Tunnel, East Kowloon Corridor to/from Hung Hom (← Chatham Road North), Yau Ma Tei, Mong Kok, and then on to the West Kowloon Corridor to reach the Mei Foo and Cheung Sha Wan Business Area.

At the beginning, this route was a special departure of Route 796C with almost the same routing in Tseung Kwan O. When it was upgraded to a whole-day service, it became an independent route, and later the routing was revised substantially to provide direct service to Tseung Kwan O South to the Tseung Kwan O Tunnel Bus-Bus Interchange.

History

Commencement of express route and rapid upgrade to whole-day service

TD and NWFB have proposed in the "2021-2022 Bus Route Planning Programme" that Route 796C would introduce a new special departure, Route 795X, during peak hours from Mondays to Fridays (except public holidays), which also ran between Oscar by the Sea and So Uk, but runs through the Kai Tak Tunnel and the East Kowloon Corridor to Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok, and then onto the West Kowloon Corridor to Mei Foo and Cheung Sha Wan Business Area, so as to cater for the needs of the passengers. The then Sai Kung District Councillor, Miss Lai Wai-tong, noting that Tseung Kwan O South was not yet fully covered by the bus service, suggested that the route should pass through the area of Alto Residences, and another Councillor asked for an increase in the frequency of the service. TD replied at the time that it would consider following up the suggestion in the light of passenger demand and relevant views after the route was launched.

However, in the 2022-2023 Bus Route Planning Programme, TD and NWFB claimed that Route 795X, which had yet to be introduced at that time, overlapped with some sections of Routes 796C and 796E, and therefore proposed to enhance the service of Route 795X to provide a whole-day express service between Yau Ma Tei, Mong Kok and Cheung Sha Wan; and Routes 796C and 796E would be merged to form a new route, Route 793, which would provide whole-day service linking the Kowloon Bay Business Area. With the implementation of the two schemes in 2022, this route was upgraded from a special peak-hour service to a standalone whole-day service within six months of its operation.

• 28 February 2022: Route 795X entered service.
• 21 August 2022:
  • Upgraded to a whole-day service, with the service hours from Oscar by the Sea being 05:30 - 23:30 and that from So Uk being 06:10 - 00:10;
  • Upgraded to an independent route following the cancellation of Route 796C.
• 1 July 2023: Changed to be operated by Citybus following the Citybus and NWFB Franchised Bus Network Merger.
• 5 November 2023: Interchange concession with Route 50 was introduced.

Amendment of routing to improve interchange networks

Route 795X is the only whole-day direct route from the Tseung Kwan O Tunnel BBI to Yau Ma Tei and Mei Foo. Although the "Arrangements on Franchised Bus Services to tie in with the Opening of Tseung Kwan O - Lam Tin Tunnel and Tseung Kwan O Cross Bay Link" suggested this route to be diverted to Tseung Lam Highway, it was not implemented due to the large number of passengers boarding and alighting at the Tseung Kwan O Tunnel BBI, and the opening of Tseung Lam Highway has relieved the congestion of Tseung Kwan O Tunnel, and the patronage has risen and the rate of increase is the highest amongst all the Tseung Kwan O Tunnel routes of the Citybus.

However, the Tseung Kwan O Tunnel BBI lacks a whole-day direct route to Tseung Kwan O South, and the alignment of Route 795X in Tseung Kwan O is very similar to that of Routes 793 and 796X. TD and Citybus have therefore arranged for the re-routing of Route 795X in accordance with the 2024-2025 Bus Route Planning Programme to directly link up the TKO Interchange with the Tseung Kwan O Plaza area, with a view to saving about 6 minutes of travelling time for the passengers in the area, and also enhancing the network efficiency of the TKO Interchange. On the implementation date of the reorganisation, Citybus further introduced interchange concessions between this route and the Kowloon Urban routes and Southern District WHC routes. However, the official website once displayed an incorrect amount of concessions, which was misleading to the public.

• 29 September 2024: Routing within Tseung Kwan O Town Centre and Tiu Keng Leng were amended:
  • For So Uk direction: Re-routed via Tong Yin Street after Chi Shin Street towards Tiu Keng Leng Station, then via Tong Ming Street, Tong Chun Street, Po Yap Road, Wan Po Road back to Tseung Kwan O Tunnel Road and original routing;
  • For Oscar by the Sea direction: Re-routed via Wan Po Road, Po Yap Road, Po Hong Road, Tong Ming Street, King Ling Road, Chui Ling Road, Po Yap Road and Tong Yin Street after Tseung Kwan O Tunnel Road before returning to Chi Shin Street.
  • Interchange concessions with Routes 20, 20A, 701, 701A, 790, 970, 970X and 971 were introduced.

Historical route information

Details of the past service hours and headways, fares and other route information of this route are set out in the "Historical route information" sub-page of this article.

Service hours and headways

The latest update is on 1/2025, see here for the referenced link

From Oscar by the Sea Service hours Headways (mins) Mondays to Fridays 05:30 - 06:30 20 06:30 - 07:00 15 07:00 - 07:40 20 07:40 - 23:10 30 23:10 - 23:30 20 Saturdays 05:30 - 06:10 20 06:10 - 16:10 30 16:10 - 18:10 20 18:10 - 23:10 30 23:10 - 23:30 20 Sundays and Public Holidays 05:30 - 06:10 20 06:10 - 16:10 30 16:10 - 17:10 20 17:10 - 23:10 30 23:10 - 23:30 20

From So Uk Service hours Headways (mins) Mondays to Fridays 06:10 - 06:50 20 06:50 - 07:15 25 07:15 - 09:15 30 09:15 - 10:30 25 10:30 - 16:30 30 16:30 - 22:10 20 22:10 - 00:10 30 Saturdays 06:10 - 06:30 20 06:30 - 13:30 30 13:30 - 23:10 20 23:10 - 00:10 30 Sundays and Public Holidays 06:10 - 06:30 20 06:30 - 14:30 30 14:30 - 19:10 20 19:10 - 20:10 30 20:10 - 22:10 20 22:10 - 00:10 30

Detailed timetable
Citybus Route 795X/Detailed timetable

This route provides "Next Bus" Arrival Time Enquiry Service.

Fares

Section fares (to So Uk)
Boarding stop \ Alighting stop	Oscar by the Sea or after	Diocesan Girls' School or after
So Uk or before	$12.8	$8.1

Section fares (to Oscar by the Sea)
Boarding stop \ Alighting stop	So Uk Estate or after	Metropark Hotel Mongkok or after	Labour Tribunal or after	Tseung Kwan O Tunnel Bus-Bus Interchange	Beverly Garden or after
Valley Road or before	$9.4 *
Oscar by the Sea or before	$12.8	$10.7	$10.3	$8.5	$4.7

Fare Remarks

Half-fare for children aged below 12 and senior citizens aged 65 or above; the remainder of the fare after half-fare will be counted as 10 cents. Elderly persons aged 65 or above using Senior Octopus Cards or Personalised Octopus cards, Hong Kong residents aged 60 to 64 using JoyYou Card, and eligible persons with disabilities using Personalised Octopus cards with "Persons with Disabilities Status" can enjoy a flat fare of $2.0 per journey under the $2 Concessionary Fare. If the concessionary fare for eligible persons with disabilities aged below 12 and senior citizens aged 65 or above is less than $2.0 after a 50% discount from the regular fare, the beneficiary is only required to pay the original concessionary fare; if the original full fare for Hong Kong residents aged 60 to 64 or eligible persons with disabilities is already less than $2.0, the beneficiary is also only required to pay the original full fare. Passengers are required to tender exact fare by cash or by Octopus card when boarding. No exact change will be given. Passengers may also use AlipayHK "EasyGo", Alipay, QuickPass, BoC Pay "RideCode", WeChat Pay HK or WeChat "Ride Code", Visa, Mastercard and UnionPay cards with inductive payment capabilities, as well as Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay and Huawei Pay mobile payment platforms for fare payment. Passengers using the above payment method can only enjoy the interchange concessions with other Citybus solely-operated routes or the Citybus departures of the jointly-operated routes, and cannot enjoy the "Public Transport Fare Subsidy Scheme" nor the "Public Transport Fare Concession Scheme for the Elderly and Eligible Persons with Disabilities". ＊ Two-way section fare - Passengers are required to pay by Octopus card or mobile e-payment platforms, and to confirm once with the same card or same account when getting on and off the bus. If other means of payment is used or the card is not reconfirmed on alighing, the fare from the boarding stop to the final destination will be charged.

Octopus interchange concessions

Passengers using the same Octopus card to interchange to the designated route after this route within a specific time, or transfer from the designated route to this route can enjoy an interchange concession. The details are as follows: (Half discount for children and senior citizens.) Template:Citybus Route 795X Interchange Concession Scheme

Tseung Kwan O Tunnel BBI Interchange Concessions

Template:TKO Tunnel BBI Interchange Concessions

Bus deployments

This route is served by 8 double-decker buses with the main models being Volvo B9TL 12m (5200-5224) and Enviro500/MMC 12m (5518-5582/5583-5599, 5601-5851, 515XX).

Operations

In view of the remote location of Oscar by the Sea Bus Terminus and the inconvenient traffic conditions, most of the running orders are arranged for bus captains to hand over duties at Tiu Keng Leng Station for duty or lunch. Bus captains who drive the last Tseung Kwan O-bound bus before leaving work or having lunch will still have to drive the buses to the urban direction after arriving at Oscar by the Sea, and carry passengers along the way until they arrive at Tiu Keng Leng Station, when another bus captain will take over the driving duties. Therefore, some of the So Uk-bound trips may need to stop at Tiu Keng Leng Station for the bus driver to hand over duties, during which the passengers can stay on the bus.

Routing

To So Uk

To So Uk: The distance of this route is approx. 25.3km, and the journey time is approximately 77mins. (The average speed is 19.7km/h.)

Via: Pung Loi Road, Wan Po Road, Po Yap Road, Chi Shin Street, Tong Yin Street, King Ling Road, Tiu Keng Leng Station Public Transport Interchange, King Ling Road, Tong Ming Street, Tong Chun Street, Po Yap Road, Wan Po Road, Tseung Kwan O Tunnel Road, Tseung Kwan O Tunnel, Tseung Kwan O Road, Kwun Tong Bypass, Kai Fuk Road, Kai Tak Tunnel, East Kowloon Corridor, Chatham Road North, Chatham Road South, Gascoigne Road, Nathan Road, Argyle Street, Cherry Street, West Kowloon Corridor, Lai Chi Kok Road, Cheung Sha Wan Road, Hing Wah Street, Po On Road and Cheung Fat Street

Citybus Route 795X (Oscar by the Sea → So Uk)
No.	Area	Road	Bus stop name	Remarks
1	Tseung Kwan O (Pak Shing Kok)	Pung Loi Road	Oscar by the Sea
2	Tseung Kwan O Town Centre	Chi Shin Street	Yee Ming Estate
3			Evangel College
4		Tong Yin Street	Alto Residences
5	Tseung Kwan O (Tiu Keng Leng)		Tiu Keng Leng Station	Buses may stop for a while after arrival for bus captain shift handovers
6		King Ling Road	Kin Ming Estate
7	Tseung Kwan O Town Centre	Tong Ming Street	TKO Spot	Near Sheung Tak
8		Tong Chun Street	Buddhist Chi Lin Primary School	Near Beverly Garden, The Grandiose
9		Po Yap Road	Tseung Kwan O Plaza
Wan Po Road, Tseung Kwan O Tunnel
10	Sau Mau Ping		Tseung Kwan O Tunnel Bus-Bus Interchange
Tseung Kwan O Road; Kwun Tong Bypass
11	Kowloon Bay Business Area	Kai Fuk Road	Hongkong Post Building
Kai Tak Tunnel to Gascoigne Road Flyover
12	Jordan	Gascoigne Road	Diocesan Girls' School	Section fare begins here
13	Yau Ma Tei	Nathan Road	Man Ming Lane
14			Pitt Street
15	Mong Kok		Grand Plaza	Near Langham Place, Nelson Street
16		Argyle Street	Yau Tsim Mong District Health Centre	Near Mong Kok Market
17	Tai Kok Tsui	Cherry Street	Ming Kei College	Near Olympian City 3
West Kowloon Corridor
18	Lai Chi Kok (Mei Foo)	Lai Chi Kok Road	Mei Foo
19	Cheung Sha Wan	Cheung Sha Wan Road	Lai Chi Kok Station	Near Cheung Sha Wan Plaza
20			Cheung Wah Street
21	So Uk	Po On Road	Azalea House So Uk Estate
22		Cheung Fat Street	Begonia House So Uk Estate
23			So Uk Estate

To Oscar by the Sea

To Oscar by the Sea: The distance of this route is approx. 25.6km, and the journey time is approximately 77mins. (The average speed is 19.9km/h.)

Via: Kwong Lee Road, Cheung Fat Street, Po On Road, Hing Wah Street, Cheung Sha Wan Road, Flyover, Lai Chi Kok Road, Cheung Sha Wan Road, Butterfly Valley Road, Lai Chi Kok Road, West Kowloon Corridor, Prince Edward Road West, Lai Chi Kok Road, Nathan Road, Gascoigne Road, Chatham Road South, Chatham Road North, East Kowloon Corridor, Kai Tak Tunnel, Kai Fuk Road, Kwun Tong Bypass, Tseung Kwan O Road, Tseung Kwan O Tunnel, Tseung Kwan O Tunnel Road, Wan Po Road, Po Yap Road, Po Hong Road, Tong Ming Street, King Ling Road, Chui Ling Road, Po Yap Road, Tong Yin Street, Chi Shin Street, Po Yap Road, Wan Po Road, Pung Loi Avenue and Pung Loi Road

Citybus Route 795X (So Uk → Oscar by the Sea)
No.	Area	Road	Bus stop name	Remarks
1	So Uk		So Uk Estate
2		Po On Road	Azalea House So Uk Estate
3	Cheung Sha Wan	Hing Wah Street	Un Chau Street
4		Cheung Sha Wan Road	Hing Wah Street
5			Cheung Sha Wan Plaza
6	Lai Chi Kok (Mei Foo)	Lai Chi Kok Road	Mei Foo
West Kowloon Corridor
7	Mong Kok	Lai Chi Kok Road	Metropark Hotel Mongkok	Section fare begins here Near Arran Street
8		Nathan Road	Argyle Centre
9			Soy Street
10	Yau Ma Tei		Dundas Street
11			Man Ming Lane
12		Gascoigne Road	Labour Tribunal	Section fare begins here
13	King's Park		Wylie Road
14	Hung Hom	Chatham Road North	Valley Road	Two-way section fare ends here
East Kowloon Corridor, Kai Tak Tunnel
15	Kowloon Bay Business Area	Kai Fuk Road	Hongkong Post Building
Kwun Tong Bypass; Tseung Kwan O Road
16	Sau Mau Ping		Tseung Kwan O Tunnel Bus-Bus Interchange	Section fare begins here
Tseung Kwan O Tunnel, Wan Po Road
17	Tseung Kwan O Town Centre	Po Hong Road	Beverly Garden	Section fare begins here Near Hong Konbg Velodrome, Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground, Tseung Kwan O Plaza
18		Tong Ming Street	Tong Ming Street Park	Near Sheung Tak
19	Tseung Kwan O (Tiu Keng Leng)	King Ling Road	Choi Fu House Choi Ming Court
20			Tiu Keng Leng Station	Near Hong Kong Design Institute
21	Tseung Kwan O Town Centre	Po Yap Road	Park Central	Near Immigration Headquarters
22		Chi Shin Street	The Wings III
23			Evangel College	Near Yung Ming Court
24	Tseung Kwan O (Pak Shing Kok)	Pung Loi Road	Oscar by the Sea

Ridership

According to the Bus Route Planning Programmes and other documents, the ridership of this route is as follows:

• 2023:
  • March: The number of passengers boarding and alighting at Tseung Kwan O Tunnel Bus-Bus Interchange was around 400;
  • December: The daily average ridership rose by 40% compared to that before the opening of Tseung Lam Highway.
• 2024: The occupancy rate during the busiest hour was 63%.

Trivia

Route 795X has a unique routing, and both NWFB and Citybus has been adopting different ways to introduce it. For example, at the beginning of its operation, it recorded an announcement to publicise its name as "Tseung Kwan O - West Kowloon Express" (將軍澳—西九龍快線); after its upgrade to whole-day service it also designed banners on the bus body to publicise its respective areas of service with Route 793; and hung banners at the bus stops in the area to list the locations of the Kowloon routes.

In September 2024, Route 795X revised its routing in Tseung Kwan O South to operate in Tseung Kwan O via Chi Sin Street, Tiu Keng Leng, Tong Ming Street, and via Tseung Kwan O Tunnel, Kai Tak Tunnel and Gascoigne Road, just like Route 796P. Citybus started to bundle the promotion of the two routes, including putting up promotional materials at bus stops in Kowloon where the two routes overlap eastbound, introducing the direct access of the two routes to Beverly Garden and Sheung Tak, as well as highlighting the urban Kowloon destinations reached by the two routes at bus stops in the Tseung Kwan O area westbound.

In December 2024, Citybus designed bus body banners and printed postal circular leaflets to promote the two routes with the theme of "Urban Kowloon in a Blink" (九龍市區就在一瞬).

Gallery

A Route 795X bus 5527 was entering Tseung Kwan O Tunnel Bus-Bus Interchange

Route 795X terminates at So Uk

Route 795X passes through Tiu Keng Leng Station for both directions

More pictures, photos and related information about this article are available in the following Gallery Page:

Citybus Route 795X (Edit)

Remarks

Related articles

• KMB Route 296C
• KMB Route 296P
• Citybus Route 793
• NWFB Route 796C (Cancelled)
• NWFB Route 796E (Cancelled)
• KMB Route N293
• Citybus Route N796

References

External links

• Citybus Official Route Information: 795X (to So Uk (via: Mong Kok and Mei Foo))
• Citybus Official Route Information: 795X (to Oscar by the Sea (via: Sheung Tak))
• Timetable approved by Transport Department