Crypto exchange shops and Bitcoin ATMs in Tsim Sha Tsui: from Chungking Mansions to K11

The short answer

For a crypto exchange in Tsim Sha Tsui, the anchor is One Satoshi at Shop 11 on the ground floor of Chungking Mansions, a minute from TST MTR Exit E. VBIT has a street shop on Humphreys Avenue, and two CoinHero ATMs, in K11 Art Mall and in Tsim Sha Tsui Mansion, buy crypto back for cash. BitAny and Crypto Panda deal mostly in USDT, but under the stablecoin law that is a grey area.

Tsim Sha Tsui is Kowloon's front door: hotels, the Star Ferry, the China Ferry Terminal for Macau and the mainland, and the busiest stretch of Nathan Road. It draws a mix of customers you do not see together anywhere else in Hong Kong. There are backpackers changing euros at Chungking Mansions and Southeast Asian traders settling in USDT. Office staff buy a little Bitcoin at a laundromat on the way home. Our research counts TST as the city's leading tourist and USDT cluster. It also has a case file to match, so this page spends as much time on safety as on addresses.

For the wider view, TST sits inside our Kowloon region guide. The Bitcoin ATM hub compares every operator's fees, and the crypto shops directory lists counters across all districts.

Chungking Mansions: forex changers and one crypto counter

Chungking Mansions (重慶大廈) at 36–44 Nathan Road needs no introduction to anyone who has backpacked through Asia. Its ground floor holds Hong Kong's best-known cluster of foreign-currency money changers, open late and seven days a week, according to traveller guides and TripAdvisor threads. It is the first stop for many travellers who need Hong Kong dollars.

Crypto arrived in the same arcade. One Satoshi, the largest OTC chain in the city, runs its TST branch at Shop 11 on the ground floor. Per its store list it opens 11:00 to 19:00 on weekdays and 11:00 to 18:00 at weekends and on holidays, and trades BTC, ETH and USDT for cash both ways. The Bitcoin Association of HK guide puts the chain's minimum at HK$1,000 and says it takes personal details above HK$80,000. One Satoshi also keeps a quieter, appointment-only desk at K11 Atelier, 18 Salisbury Road (Exit J), open weekday afternoons, for customers who would rather not do a large trade in a busy arcade. Our One Satoshi review compares its branches.

The building's CKE Shopping Mall also appears in Coin ATM Radar as the site of a Nitroswap machine, listed as open 08:00 to 23:30. We could not confirm that on an operator page, so it is marked as aggregator data below. Financial blog Talkmoney has written that USDT shops concentrate in TST and around Chungking Mansions. A compiled list from January 2025 adds names such as BTC Shop HK, Otcxpert, Crypto Pro and Coinfactory in TST, but that list is old and we did not verify those shops.

Crypto exchange counters in Tsim Sha Tsui

Beyond Chungking Mansions, TST's counters split into two types. Some have street frontage and posted hours. Others keep a website and a WhatsApp number and give an address only once you ask.

• OTC counter Sells for cash Operator-listed
  One Satoshi – Chungking Mansions Shop 11, G/F, Chungking Mansions, 36–44 Nathan Road 尖沙咀重慶大廈地下 11 號舖 MTR TST Exit E · Mon–Fri 11:00–19:00, Sat/Sun/PH 11:00–18:00 · cash buy and sell BTC, ETH, USDT
• OTC counter Operator-listed
  One Satoshi – K11 Atelier (reservation only) K11 Atelier, 18 Salisbury Road 梳士巴利道 18 號 K11 Atelier Exit J · Mon–Fri 12:00–18:00, closed weekends and holidays · book first
• OTC counter Operator-listed
  VBIT 威幣 (Tsim Sha Tsui) Shop O, G/F, 嘉芬大廈, Humphreys Avenue About 50m from TST Exit A2 · daily 11:00–19:30. One directory lists it as Grafton House, Kimberley Road; the operator gives Humphreys Avenue
• OTC counter Operator-listed
  BitAny Tsim Sha Tsui (no street address published) Mon–Sat 10:00–19:00, closed Sun/PH · cash USDT buy and sell, says it verifies identity for AML
• OTC counter Press report
  Crypto Panda Tsim Sha Tsui (address not published on site) Quotes via WhatsApp/Telegram. Reported by Caixin to keep trading USDT by private inquiry after 1 Aug 2025
• OTC counter User-reported
  Crypto Master G/F, E11B, 105 Austin Road Found only on its Facebook page; on the Jordan side of TST

VBIT on Humphreys Avenue

VBIT's TST shop is Shop O on the ground floor of 嘉芬大廈 on Humphreys Avenue, about 50 metres from Exit A2, and opens daily from 11:00 to 19:30. Our earlier research file had it as Grafton House on Kimberley Road; the operator's own page says Humphreys Avenue, which is what we follow. It trades BTC, ETH, SOL, BNB, DOGE and TRX, handles USDT only on the payout side, and says it applies KYC to all trades.

BitAny and Crypto Panda

These two are USDT specialists. BitAny's site describes a Tsim Sha Tsui shop open Monday to Saturday, 10:00 to 19:00, with no minimum trade. It gives no street address and says it must confirm customers' identity under anti-money-laundering law. Crypto Panda advertises no minimum and no fees, settlement in about 15 minutes, and quotes on WhatsApp. Search autocomplete shows people looking for "crypto panda tsim sha tsui", but the site lists no address or hours. After the Stablecoins Ordinance took effect, Caixin, via Yahoo Finance HK, reported that Crypto Panda and Star Coin carried on trading USDT by private inquiry without posted prices. Other shops in Admiralty and TST suspended USDT.

Crypto Master on Austin Road

Crypto Master lists G/F, E11B, 105 Austin Road on Facebook, on the Jordan edge of TST. We found no operator website, so it carries a user-reported tag.

Bitcoin ATMs in Tsim Sha Tsui

TST has five machines on the operator lists we checked. What sets the district apart is that two of the three CoinHero units buy crypto back for cash. On the locator we checked on 30 September 2026, CoinHero offered that at only eight of its roughly 100 locations territory-wide, so a quarter of the network's sell points are in this one district.

• ATM Sells for cash Operator-listed
  CoinHero – K11 Art Mall B2/F, K11 Art Mall, 18 Hanoi Road Daily 10:00–22:00 · buy and sell
• ATM Sells for cash Operator-listed
  CoinHero – Tsim Sha Tsui Mansion (Laundry Xpress) Shop 13, G/F, Tsim Sha Tsui Mansion, 83–97 Nathan Road 24 hours · buy and sell
• ATM Operator-listed
  CoinHero – Kimberley Street Shop 1H, G/F, Kimberley Street 24 hours · buy only
• ATM Aggregator data
  Nitroswap – CKE Shopping Mall CKE Shopping Mall, 36 Nathan Road Listed 08:00–23:30 · General Bytes machine per Coin ATM Radar
• ATM Operator-listed
  CoinUnit – China Hong Kong City 2/F, China Hong Kong City, 33 Canton Road Daily 08:00–20:00 · HK$500/1,000 notes · BTC, ETH, DOGE, LTC, TRX · ferry terminal building

The K11 Art Mall machine on B2/F at 18 Hanoi Road is the tidy option: mall hours of 10:00 to 22:00, security guards and good light. The Tsim Sha Tsui Mansion unit at Shop 13, 83–97 Nathan Road, sits in a laundromat and runs 24 hours, which makes it the only sell-back machine in the district after 10pm. The Kimberley Street machine is buy-only. CoinHero's published fees are 13% plus HK$100 to buy and 13% plus HK$25 to sell, with a HK$500 minimum and registration above HK$100,000. Our CoinHero review covers the membership that cuts these fees.

At the western end of Canton Road, CoinUnit has a machine on 2/F of China Hong Kong City, the ferry terminal building. It is open 08:00 to 20:00, takes only HK$500 and HK$1,000 notes and sells BTC, ETH, DOGE, LTC and TRX. It is handy if you are catching a boat, but mind the note rule: this machine will not take the HK$100 notes a money changer usually hands out.

For visitors: what actually works

If you are only in town for a few days, three practical points matter more than any address. First, every machine here takes Hong Kong dollars only, and CoinUnit takes only HK$500 and HK$1,000 notes. Change money first and ask the changer for large notes. Second, bring your passport. CoinHero requires ID registration above HK$100,000 per transaction, and counters may ask for it far below that. Third, have your own wallet ready before you arrive, with the right network selected. An ATM will not hold coins for you, and a counter should never hold them on your behalf.

For small amounts a card is almost always cheaper. CEX.IO is one international option that sells crypto by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, from spot fees of 0.15% or 0.25%. It was founded in London in 2013, is registered as a money services business with FinCEN in the US and holds a Gibraltar DLT licence. It is not licensed by the SFC. Hong Kong's regulator recommends the platforms on its licensed list, which you can compare in our licensed exchanges guide. Flying out? Our Lantau and airport page explains why there is no crypto ATM near the terminal.

USDT in Tsim Sha Tsui after the stablecoin law

USDT is TST's biggest crypto product. Most counter trades in Hong Kong are virtual asset for fiat, and USDT on TRC-20 or ERC-20 is the usual choice for cross-border traders who want dollar value without a bank wire. It is also the product the law has singled out.

In practice, TST responded in three ways. Some shops suspended USDT, BitsMark closed altogether, and others moved to private quotes on messaging apps. For you as a customer, this means a posted USDT board is now rare, prices come by WhatsApp, and there are fewer written records. If you want USDT or need to turn it into Hong Kong dollars, read our USDT to HKD guide first. It covers licensed routes, bank transfers and what the new HKD stablecoins from HSBC and Anchorpoint could change.

Three cases that started in Tsim Sha Tsui

May 2024: hell banknotes for HK$1m of USDT. A customer sent about HK$1m worth of USDT to a TST exchange shop and was paid in hell banknotes, the paper offerings burned at funerals. Police arrested three shop employees aged 31 to 34 and seized around 3,000 notes, Bitcoinist reported. Never release coins until you have counted and checked the cash yourself.

May 2025: the HK$118m mule ring. Police broke up a syndicate that had recruited people to open stooge bank accounts, withdrew the cash and converted it to crypto at exchange shops. Two members were arrested on the spot at a Tsim Sha Tsui crypto shop, and HK$770,000 in cash was seized before it could be converted. RTHK reported that 12 people were charged. The lesson for honest customers is that a shop handling dirty cash can have its wallets flagged, and coins that pass through them can follow you.

January 2026: the Sheung Wan yen robbery. On 30 January 2026 about ¥51m (roughly HK$2.57m) was robbed outside a money changer on Des Voeux Road Central. Of the six people arrested, two worked at a virtual-currency exchange shop on Nathan Road in TST and were suspected of helping handle the loot. About ¥7m was recovered from an exchange shop, according to HK01 and Wen Wei Po. The robbery happened across the harbour, as our Central and Sheung Wan page explains, but the money came back to Kowloon.

None of this makes every TST counter suspect. It does explain why the good ones ask for ID and the scam guide is worth ten minutes of your time.

Before you trade in TST

• Pick a named counter with posted hours. Walk past anyone offering a better rate in a corridor.
• Trade inside opening hours. For large sums use One Satoshi's K11 Atelier reservation desk or a bank transfer instead of cash.
• Check the coin, the network and the wallet address on your own phone. Wait for confirmation before you hand over cash.
• Count and check the notes at the counter when selling.
• Keep the chat log and receipt. For suspected fraud, call 999 or the 18222 anti-scam hotline.

If TST does not suit you, Mong Kok, three stops north on the Tsuen Wan line, has the densest cluster in the city at 608 Nathan Road. Kwun Tong has quieter office-district counters on Hoi Yuen Road. And if all you want is a first HK$500 of Bitcoin, the quickest-way guide will likely get you there more cheaply than any machine on Nathan Road.

Frequently asked questions

Sources & further reading

1. LCQ10: stablecoins and OTC shops (info.gov.hk) · 10 Sep 2025
2. SFC — Lists of virtual asset trading platforms · updated 29 May 2026
3. One Satoshi — store list · checked 30 Sep 2026
4. CoinHero — ATM locations · checked 30 Sep 2026
5. VBIT — shop list · checked 30 Sep 2026
6. CoinUnit — China Hong Kong City ATM · checked 30 Sep 2026
7. Yahoo Finance HK (Caixin) — shops still exchanging USDT after the ordinance · 10 Aug 2025
8. RTHK — 12 charged over alleged laundering of HK$118m · 17 May 2025
9. Bitcoinist — hell money paid at a Hong Kong crypto exchange · May 2024

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