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▼The almost-completed new Peak Tram terminal will complement the existing

viewing platform – itself only a few years old – in offering the pick of views over Hong Kong. More than 1 million people visited the Peak in 1996, either by bus or the Peak Tram, which began operations in 1888 and is Hong Kong's oldest public transport. It is Asia's oldest funicular railway, rising 373 metres from Garden Road, Central, to Victoria Gap, 397 metres above sea level. BOTTOM: The reason for the climb.