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Repulse Bay
Bay in Southern Hong Kong

Repulse Bay

Repulse Bay or Tsin Shui Wan is a bay in the southern part of Hong Kong Island, located in the Southern District, Hong Kong.

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It is one of the most expensive residential areas in the world.

Get in

Getting to Repulse Bay

The Southern side of Hong Kong is served by the South Island Line of the MTR. Passengers can board the South Island Line at Admiralty Station if coming from Central. The South Island Line stops at Lei Tung and South Horizons Stations on Ap Lei Chau and at the Wong Chuk Hang Station near Aberdeen. Ocean Park is also served by a dedicated MTR station.

See

Worth seeing

The south east coast of Hong Kong Island is mostly rural and offers visitors some attractive coastal and mountain scenery. It is interesting to travel around the two peninsulas found either side of Tai Tam Bay that dangle into the South China sea.

  1. 01
    Murray House

    One of Hong Kong's oldest colonial buildings.

  2. 02
    Hong Kong Correctional Services Museum
  3. 03
    Stanley Ma Hang Park

    This 50,000-m² park is set into the cliffside near Murray House.

  4. 04
    Pok Fu Lam Country Park
  5. 05
    Aberdeen Country Park
Do

Things to do

In contrast to the hard shopping and eating elsewhere in Hong Kong, the southern District offers the chance to relax. There are plenty of beaches with traditional Hong Kong style barbeques and local supermarkets cater for demand by selling all the paraphernalia and food needed for such a feast. There is Wakeboarding in Tai Tam, Repulse Bay and Stanley. There is Surfing at Big Wave Bay for around $50 per day.

  1. 01
    Repulse Bay Beach

    Biggest and most popular beach and is suitable for families with small children.

  2. 02
    Middle Bay

    Popular with gay men and is a 20-minute walk along the coast from Repulse Bay.

  3. 03
    South Bay

    Never too busy, even on weekends, but you will need to take a taxi from Repulse Bay.

  4. 04
    Stanley Main Beach
  5. 05
    St Stephens Beach
  6. 06
    Shek O Beach
Eat

Where to eat

The restaurants in this area tend to be far more relaxed and open air than in the rest of Hong Kong.

  1. 01
    Chinese and Thailand Seafood Restaurant

    Food here is reasonable and it offers probably the best meal in the village.

  2. 02
    Spices Restaurant
  3. 03
    The Verandah
  4. 04
    The Boathouse

    A reasonably inexpensive restaurant on the Stanley promenade that features dining upstairs and a more relaxed bar on the ground floor.

How locals move

Getting around Repulse Bay the local way

Share-taxi routes mapped nearby
  • 西旺 公共小巴旺角至西環線 Public Light Bus Mong Kok – Kennedy Town (往西環 to Kennedy Town)
  • 西旺 公共小巴旺角至西環線 Public Light Bus Mong Kok – Kennedy Town (往旺角 to Mong Kok)
  • 香旺 公共小巴旺角至香港仔線 Public Light Bus Mong Kok – Aberdeen (往旺角 to Mong Kok)
  • 香旺 公共小巴旺角至香港仔線 Public Light Bus Mong Kok – Aberdeen (往香港仔 to Aberdeen)
  • 27M 九龍專綫小巴27M線 Kowloon Green Minibus 27M (樂民新邨 Lok Man Sun Chuen → 旺角站 Mong Kok Station (周末 Weekends)) · 財記（旺角） Choi Kee (Mong Kok)
  • 27M 九龍專綫小巴27M線 Kowloon Green Minibus 27M (樂民新邨 Lok Man Sun Chuen → 旺角站 Mong Kok Station) · 財記（旺角） Choi Kee (Mong Kok)
  • 27M 九龍專綫小巴27M線 Kowloon Green Minibus 27M (旺角站 Mong Kok Station → 樂民新邨 Lok Man Sun Chuen) · 財記（旺角） Choi Kee (Mong Kok)
  • 27MS 九龍專綫小巴27MS線 Kowloon Green Minibus 27MS (旺角站 Mong Kok Station ↺ 何文田南邨 Ho Man Tin South Estate (周末 Weekends)) · 財記（旺角） Choi Kee (Mong Kok)
  • 27MS 九龍專綫小巴27MS線 Kowloon Green Minibus 27MS (旺角站 Mong Kok Station ↺ 何文田南邨 Ho Man Tin South Estate) · 財記（旺角） Choi Kee (Mong Kok)
  • 28M 九龍專綫小巴28M線 Kowloon Green Minibus 28M (旺角站 Mong Kok Station → 偉恒昌新邨 Wyler Garden) · 財記（旺角） Choi Kee (Mong Kok)
  • 28M 九龍專綫小巴28M線 Kowloon Green Minibus 28M (偉恒昌新邨 Wyler Garden → 旺角站 Mong Kok Station) · 財記（旺角） Choi Kee (Mong Kok)
  • 28MS 九龍專綫小巴28MS線 Kowloon Green Minibus 28MS (偉恒昌新邨 Wyler Garden ↺ 何文田站 Ho Man Tin Station) · 財記（旺角） Choi Kee (Mong Kok)

OpenStreetMap contributors.

  • Get inYou can also get into Aberdeen by ferry from Cheung Chau or Lamma Island.
  • Go nextThere are a few Outlying Islands reachable from the Southern District: Take a ferry from Aberdeen to Lamma island Take a ferry from Stanley to the Po Toi islands

From Wikivoyage: Hong Kong/Southern District, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.