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Rickshaw Sightseeing Bus
 Rickshaw Sightseeing Bus (Chinese: 人力車觀光巴士) was a brand of sightseeing transportation service operated by Citybus, one of the franchised bus services operators in Hong Kong. It was operated by New World First Bus Services Limited (NWFB) before it was merged into Citybus on 1 July 2023. It offers a thematic sightseeing route by open-top sightseeing buses decorated under the “rickshaw” concept, which is an old Hong Kong icon. It aims to facilitate visitors to explore local culture and diverse attractions of Hong Kong. The Rickshaw Sightseeing Bus was introduced on 18 October 2009, intended to reminisce the early days of Hong Kong for visitors and local citizens, and also to facilitate the up-growing demand of individual travelers.[1] Before 13 December 2014, there were two routes which called "H1 Heritage Tour" and "H2 Metropolis Tour", but it merged into a route with the new crossing-harbour trip. The Rickshaw Sightseeing Bus brand was rebranded a "HK City Sightseeing" in 2024.[2] Routes Rickshaw Sightseeing Bus provides a sightseeing route, "H1 Heritage Tour." H1 Heritage TourThe "H1 Heritage Tour" takes riders around key attractions in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. En route bus stopsFare: $33.0 HKD/ direction (From Stop 1 to 21 and Stop 21 to 1) 1. Central (Star Ferry)
2. Central (Exchange Square) Bus Terminus - Interchange stop for Citybus route 260 to Stanley, New World First Bus route 15 to The Peak Across Cross-Harbour Tunnel to Kowloon 15. Temple Street
Across Cross-Harbour Tunnel to Hong Kong Island 22. Causeway Bay Shopping Area, Paterson Street Starting from 13 December 2014, routes H1 and H2 combined to form a new route. This new route contained an extension to Kowloon while also cancelling stops in the Mid-Levels. The route departs every 30 minutes from 10:00 am till 8:30 pm every day. Fleet.jpg)
Starting from February 2015, a batch of five 2002 Dennis Trident 12-metre (fleet number 1215-1219) were converted into half open-topped sightseeing bus and replace the 11-metre Volvo Olympians. The old Olympians will start to transfer to Citybus and replace the old open-topped Leyland Olympians. VA51 had its last day service on Route H1 on 15 April 2015 while the replacement Tridents were not ready for service until 16 May 2015. During this period, New World First Bus Services Limited (NWFB) were using standard buses including Dennis Tridents (fleet number 1180 and 3313) and Alexander Dennis Enviro500s (fleet number 4040 which had been repainted into Arts Bus on the Move 2015 livery, 5518 and 5539 which are in standard livery and 5568 which had been repainted into 2015 Year of The Goat Chinese Zodiac Bus livery). The first half open-topped Trident, 1215, finally entered service on 16 May 2015 operating on the first departure that day. The second and the third new open-topped buses entered service on 19 May 2015 and 20 June 2015. The second Olympian to be transferred to Citybus was VA54 and its last day service was 17 May 2015 and it was repainted into red 'Auntie Nora' livery to replace the AEC Routemaster open-topped vintage bus in the Citybus fleet. VA51 and VA54 changed their fleet numbers into 22 and 23 and finally joined Citybus in June 2015. FareSingle trip fare: HKD 33 (Riders are required to alight at stop 21 of one single trip fare, or continue to stay on the bus to continue the journey, it's required to pay the single trip fare again when alighting )
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