Luohu Port

Lo Wu Control Point

LandmarkLuohu: the Border Crossing and Old Shenzhen

LUOHU PORT (LO WU CONTROL POINT) · LUOHU KOU'AN

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VERIFIED2026.09.23

Luohu: the Border Crossing and Old Shenzhen · 22.531°N 114.113°E

No ticketingPassport needed

The double-deck footbridge over the Shenzhen River that most visitors from Hong Kong walk across: MTR East Rail to Lo Wu, up the escalator, through immigration, and you are in China. The port office lists it as 06:30-24:00, with 190 inspection lanes (115 self-service, 75 staffed) and a stated aim of keeping the queue under 30 minutes; the daily average is about 170,000 crossings. Two things to know before you plan around it.

Before you goTime this from the Hong Kong side, not the port's. The crossing is open until midnight, but the last East Rail train towards Lo Wu leaves Admiralty at 23:01 and Hung Hom at 23:07, and Lo Wu station itself closes at 00:40 - 'open till 24:00' has never meant you can still come over at 23:30. Do not plan a 240-hour visa-free transit entry here: since 5 November 2025 the official list gives Guangdong ten eligible ports - Baiyun, Bao'an and Jieyang Chaoshan airports, the Nansha, Shekou, Pazhou and Zhongshan passenger ports, Hengqin, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and the West Kowloon high-speed rail station - and no Shenzhen land crossing is on it. The face-scan smart lanes launched here on 5 November 2025 list mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan travel documents and no foreign passport, so queue for a staffed lane. And ignore anyone who approaches you in the arrivals hall offering a car: in a case the provincial transport department published in November 2025, a passenger who took one from Luohu to Futian paid 90 yuan for a 20 yuan ride and the driver got five days' detention. The taxi rank is inside the transport building, off He Ping Road. Something wrong here? Tell us →

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AdmissionNo ticketingNo ticket; a border crossing, not an attraction

Hours06:30-24:00 daily (passenger clearance)Source ↗

IDPassport required.Details ↓Source ↗

LandmarkLuohu Port (Lo Wu Control Point) (罗湖口岸联检大楼 / 交通楼)

AddressSouth side of Luohu commercial centre, Luohu District, on the Shenzhen River opposite the New Territories (深圳市罗湖区罗湖商业中心南侧)Source ↗Navigate ↗

EntranceFrom Hong Kong: MTR East Rail to Lo Wu, then the covered bridge. From the Shenzhen side: Metro Line 1 Luohu station, exit A on the transport level (escalator), or Metro Line 9 Renmin Nan station, exit A1 by the Shangri-La (port office)

Last verified 2026-09-23

How to book

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ID details

Passport required. Passport with a valid Chinese visa or other visa-free basis; foreign passports are not on the published list of documents eligible for the face-scan smart lanes

Paying on site

No ticket. Metro single journeys from 2 yuan at the machines, or tap a Visa/Mastercard/Amex/JCB/UnionPay card straight on the gate - every Shenzhen Metro gate has taken foreign cards since 10 September 2026 (city transport bureau)

Language

Port information desk on the ground floor of the arrivals hall, by the panoramic lift at the north exit: directions, first-aid kit, free wifi, charging, wheelchairs, lost property, hot water (port office). Immigration hotline 12367 has English.

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How does the departure tax refund work, and where can I claim it?Depends · Spend ¥200 in one refund shop in a day and leave within 90 days: about 11% back, at the port or right in the store.