Hong Kong explorers offer rare look into underground air raid tunnels
The Hong Kong Urban Exploration group explores the 2.5 kilometres of second world war tunnels under Leighton Hill in Causeway Bay
A group of urban exploration enthusiasts has offered a rare glimpse into a second world war air-raid tunnel in a video making the social media rounds.
The video produced by Hong Kong Urban Exploration (HK Urbex), which bills itself as a collective documenting “Hong Kong’s forsaken places”, shows a visit to tunnels built in 1940 under Leighton Hill in Causeway Bay as a pre-emptive defence against Japanese bombing.
It is not the first time the group’s members have explored the 2.5 kilometres of tunnels – the longest of 92 disused underground facilities in Hong Kong, according to a previous Post article.
Watch: Exploring tunnels under Leighton Hill
“[The tunnels] have always been high on our list, and this is one of a few that we’ve been in,” an HK Urbex co-founder told the Post, requesting anonymity because the group often enters historical sites illegally.