- Address:
- Gloucester Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island
- Website:
-
www.gohk.gov.hk
- International | English
- Australia | English
- Canada | English
- 中国內地 | 简体中文
- France | Français
- Deutschland | Deutsch
- India | English
- Indonesia | Bahasa Indonesia
Noon Day Gun
- Please select
- 1881 Heritage
- 7 Mallory Street
- Antiquities and Monuments Office
- Asia Society Hong Kong Center
- The Blue House Cluster
- Clock Tower
- Court of Final Appeal
- Duddell Street Steps & Gas Lamps
- Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware
- The Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong
- Former French Mission Building
- Fringe Club
- Government House
- Green Hub
- Jao Tsung-I Academy
- Kamikaze Cave
- Lui Seng Chun
- Murray House
- Noon Day Gun
- The Pawn
- PMQ
- Tai Kwun
- Tai O Heritage Hotel
- The Peninsula
- SCAD Hong Kong
- St Andrew’s Church
- Tai Tam Waterworks Heritage Trail
- University of Hong Kong
- Wan Chai Environmental Resource Centre
- Western Market
- Yau Ma Tei Theatre
Owned by multinational company Jardine Matheson, the Noon Day Gun, made famous in the Noel Coward song Mad Dogs and Englishmen, is fired off by a Jardine employee at noon every day.
The gun is located on the waterfront in Causeway Bay, where Jardine used to have warehouses, known in these parts as godowns. The one-gun salute tradition is said to have started when a Royal Naval Officer who was new to Hong Kong became annoyed at the tendency of Jardine employees to fire off a gunshot when the head of the company sailed into port – gun salutes being reserved for military commanders only. As punishment, Jardine were required to fire a one-shot salute every day at noon, for perpetuity.
The company has kept to the deal and the Noon Day Gun has become a local tradition and attraction for visitors. Noel Coward even dropped by to fire it off once.