TaiKoo CityPlaza 太古城
Taikoo Shing CityPlaza is the largest shopping mall in the region, and it always gives people a leisurely and comfortable feeling. With a history of more than 40 years, the shops are complete, including Japanese clothing, Marks & Spencer, cinemas, pasta shops, sandwich shops and now several basketball fields with fashion booths on the ground.
TaiKoo CityPlaza
You can go up from Exit D2 of Taikoo MTR Station to the Taikoo Shing Shopping Center- CityPlaza. CityPlaza is the largest shopping mall in the region, and it always gives people a leisurely and comfortable feeling.
Even though CityPlaza has a history of more than 40 years, it is always clean and tidy, with bare columns and light-colored walls. The shops are complete, including Japanese clothing, Marks & Spencer, cinema, pasta shops, sandwich shops and now several basketball fields with fashion booths on the ground.
Nearby is Taikoo Shing Residential Building, where residents go shopping and have afternoon tea.
There are fewer office workers here than at Quarry Bay Station, and there are fast food restaurants on the first basement floor.
This mall has five floors, including a basement floor.
In addition to the elevator, you can also go down the spiral staircase one floor at a time. There used to be a roller skating rink on the top floor, around the 1980s and 1990s, and now there is still ice skating rink.
The cinema is on the fifth floor, the ticket office is large and very eye-catching,
and there are many kinds of shops, including home appliances, glasses, cosmetics,
Japanese fashion stores such as MUJI and GU, etc., all available.
The skating rink is next to the basketball clothing store. It has some skating classes on weekdays allowing children to learn skating. When there are these sports facilities, tourists entering the mall feel energetic.
Turning a shipyard into Taikoo Shing
Taikoo Shing was originally a shipyard, built in 1907. In 1972 The Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering Company Limited merged with the Hongkong & Whampoa Dock Company and formed Hongkong United Dockyards (HUD) and moved the operation of container port to Kwai Chung. In 1973, Swire Properties converted the shipyard into residential estates and commercial buildings.
It is also popular with working professionals due to its proximity to office buildings. A portion of the population, including Japanese and Koreans, also resides here, making it a Japanese community.
The shopping mall occupies 1.11 million square feet and is renowned for its Japanese brands.
How to get there:
Address: 18 Tai Koo Shing Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong
Website: https://www.cityplaza.com/en
Opening Hours: 7 am – 12:00 mid night (Each store may have specific opening hours)
References:
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太古城. (n.d.)wikipedia.org. URL: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%AA%E5%8F%A4%E5%9F%8E
