MOSTown (formerly Sunshine City; ) is a shopping centre in the town centre of Ma On Shan in the

Sha Tin District Sha Tin District is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong. As one of the 9 districts located in the New Territories, it covers the areas of Sha Tin, Tai Wai, Ma On Shan, Fo Tan, Siu Lek Yuen, and Ma Liu Shui. The district is the most populo ...

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. It was developed by

Henderson Land Development Henderson Land Development Co. Ltd. () is a listed property developer in Hong Kong and a constituent of the Hang Seng Index. The company's principal activities are property development and investment, project management, construction, hotel oper ...

, and contains a series of high-rise residential tower blocks and a series of

shopping arcades Shopping is an activity in which a customer browses the available goods or services presented by one or more retailers with the potential intent to purchase a suitable selection of them. A typology of shopper types has been developed by scho ...

Residential towers

There are residential towers above MOSTown, containing in excess of 5,000 residential units, were constructed in five phases during the 1990s. The majority of units are between 40 and 60 square metres. Each phase was built together with a shopping arcade. Phase 5 is also known as Tolo Place ().

Shopping centre

The

shopping centre A shopping center (American English) or shopping centre (Commonwealth English), also called a shopping complex, shopping arcade, shopping plaza or galleria, is a group of shops built together, sometimes under one roof. The first known collec ...

s for phases 1 to 3 are relatively small. "''Sunshine City Plaza''" (), the shopping arcade built with phase 4, is by far the largest, and has retail floor space of in excess of . "''Sunshine Bazaar''" () is the name given to Phase 5 of the mall.

Location and access

Sunshine City Plaza is located on Sai Sha Road, adjacent to the

MTR The Mass Transit Railway (MTR) is a major public transport network serving :Hong Kong. Operated by the MTR Corporation Limited (MTRCL), it consists of heavy rail, light rail, and feeder bus service centred on a 10-line rapid transit network ...

Ma On Shan station, has nowadays become the centre of Ma On Shan. It is across from the

Ma On Shan Plaza Ma On Shan Plaza is a shopping centre in the town centre of Ma On Shan in the Sha Tin District of Hong Kong. Location Ma On Shan Plaza is located on Sai Sha Road, and is connected to MOSTown and the Ma On Shan station of the MTR Tuen Ma line ...

. Ma On Shan Town Centre bus terminus is located underneath Sunshine City Plaza. Ma On Shan station of the

Tuen Ma line The Tuen Ma line () is a rapid transit line that forms part of the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) system in Hong Kong. Coloured brown on the map, the Tuen Ma line is in length, making it the longest line of the MTR network. It has a total of ...

was opened in 2004, and is connected to Sunshine City Plaza by a footbridge. The resulting improvement in transport has been an important factor for the increase in the number of visitors to Sunshine City Plaza.

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Residential towers

Shopping centre

Location and access

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