Hongkongers are all set to welcome Lunar New Year in a big way after two years of toned-down celebrations. And to commemorate the Year Of The Rabbit, districts and malls across the city have organised LNY set-ups that feature everything from larger-than-life bunnies and massive flower arrangements, to mahjong displays and even LEGO installations. Here’s our list of places in the 852 where you can get great #LNY2023 clicks.

Central Market — Central

Central Market's Lunar New Year decor includes old-style markets, 450 lanterns suspended above the Oasis, and an LED flower board.
Central Market’s Lunar New Year decor includes old-style markets, lanterns, and an LED flower board (© Central Market via Facebook)

Fancy a throwback to the old 852? Central Market has set up street markets, flower stalls, a bazaar dedicated to Hong Kong-based illustrators, and a retro toy store. But the highlights are the five-metre-tall LED flower board at Oasis on the ground floor, and the 450 lanterns suspended above it that symbolize the Lantern Festival.

93 Queen’s Road Central, Central | +852 3618 8668

Hong Kong Cultural Centre Tsim Sha Tsui

The life-sized rabbit, lion, and festive treat lantern displays at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Piazza are lit up every evening.
The life-sized rabbit, lion, and festive treat lantern displays at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Piazza are lit up every evening (© LCSD)

The government’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Office has worked with Hui Ka-hung, a master in traditional paper crafting, to create several rabbit, lion, and dim sum lantern displays. The lanterns, which are at the HKCC Piazza until February 7, will be lit between 6pm and 11pm every day.

Hong Kong Cultural Centre, L5, Auditoria Building, 10 Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui | +852 2734 2009

New Town Plaza — Sha Tin

New Town Plaza's rabbits sit on a sea of flowers.
New Town Plaza’s rabbits sit on a sea of flowers (© New Town Plaza via Facebook)

Go on a whirlwind tour of Seoul, Kyoto and Taipei, courtesy the massive rabbits sitting amid a sea of flowers at New Town Plaza. Get that springtime vibe by taking a stroll through a cherry-tree forest replete with blossoms and a rapeseed field.

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18-19 Sha Tin Centre Street, Sha Tin | +852 2608 9329

Citygate Outlets — Tung Chung

Citygate Outlet's FUNtastic World displays feature the Cheeky Cheeky family created by Hong Kong illustrator Pok Li and Chupa Chups.
Citygate Outlet’s FUNtastic World displays feature the Cheeky Cheeky family created by Hong Kong illustrator Pok Li and Chupa Chups (© Citygate Outlets via Facebook)

Go on a sweet Lunar New Year ride with the Cheeky Cheeky family, the brainchild of a collab between Hong Kong illustrator Pok Li and Chupa Chups. Check out the various FUNtastic World displays at the L2 bridge and atrium in the mall, and near cdf Beauty on L2.

20 Tat Tung Road Tung Chung | +852 2109 2933

IFC Central

IFC Mall's Garden of Auspicious Delights pays homage to the beauty of blossoming springtime flowers.
IFC Mall’s Garden of Auspicious Delights pays homage to the beauty of blossoming springtime flowers (© IFC Mall via Facebook)

Wander through the Garden of Auspicious Delights, which is a tribute to the beauty of blossoming flowers in springtime, at IFC Mall’s Oval Atrium. Use the Fluid Blessings digital experience to send an online blessing to your loved ones and the Bedazzling Butterfly Instagram AR Filter to take selfies with fluttering butterflies.

8 Finance Street, Central | +852 2295 3308

Festival Walk — Kowloon Tong

The award-winning Guo Kung Fu Golden Dragon and Lion Dance Team showcases their drum performances at Festival Walk.
The award-winning Guo Kung Fu Golden Dragon and Lion Dance Team showcases their drum performances at Festival Walk (© Festival Walk via Facebook)

Festival Walk’s installations that feature auspicious flowers and 3D geometric rabbits provide great backdrops for shoppers, as well as live LNY shows. Mark your calendars on January 20, 21, 28 and 29, when the award-winning Guo Kung Fu Golden Dragon and Lion Dance Team will showcase their drum performances and flag dances at the mall, at 2pm and 4pm.

80 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong | +852 2844 2222

Follow The Lucky Rabbits Multiple locations

There will be a rooftop Lucky Rabbit installation at Central Pier.
There will be a rooftop Lucky Rabbit installation at Central Pier (© Hong Kong Tourism Board)

The Hong Kong Tourism Board has planned several Chinese New Year attractions from January 19-February 5 along Victoria Harbour. There’s a giant Lucky Rabbit rooftop installation at Central Pier, a new rainbow walk on the Wan Chai Temporary Promenade, a sea of flowers and shimmering lights at Tamar Park, and 20 Lucky Rabbits on the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Viewing Deck with lights and festive songs.

Central, Wan Chai, Admiralty, Tsim Sha Tsui | +852 2892 2393

Langham Place — Mong Kok

The Japanese cat mofusand frolics at Japanese shrines, onsen, and izakaya installations at Langham Place.
The Japanese cat mofusand frolics at Japanese shrines, onsen, and izakaya installations at Langham Place (© Langham Place)

Fans of the Japanese cat mofusand can head to Langham Place to see replicas of the feline frolicking at Japanese shrines, onsen, and izakaya. Check out drawings of mofusand, which are on display in Hong Kong for the first time, as well as the city’s first pop-up store dedicated to the cartoon character.

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8 Argyle Street, Mong Kok | +852 3520 2800

Tsuen Wan Plaza Tsuen Wan

Tseun Wan Plaza's Lunar New Year set-up is designed by Korean design team CIRCUS BOY BAND.
Tseun Wan Plaza’s Lunar New Year set-up is designed by Korean design team CIRCUS BOY BAND (© Tsuen Wan Plaza via Facebook)

Korean design team CIRCUS BOY BAND has created a Spring Fortune Garden at Tseun Wan Plaza, which features the rabbits Tokee Pink and Tokee White, as well as other Forest Club characters.

4-30 Tai Pa St, Tsuen Wan | +852 2498 8343

PMQ Central

Check out the colourful tumbler bunnies at PMQ.
Check out the colourful tumbler bunnies at PMQ (© PMQ via Facebook)

This is a great place for families because you’re more than welcome to push, shake, and lean on the rabbits here. There are more than 50 tumbler bunnies on the ground floor of PMQ in all sizes, which make for ‘Gram-worthy pics.

35 Aberdeen Street, Central | + 852 2870 2335

The One — Tsim Sha Tsui

Hong Kong character Fatty by Plastic Thing is at The One for Lunar New Year.
Hong Kong character Fatty by Plastic Thing is at The One for Lunar New Year (© The One via Facebook)

Hong Kong’s very own Plastic Thing has set up shop at The One for Lunar New Year, and features the food-loving Fatty front and centre. Check out the pop-up store for merch or just stop by for a chance to click a pic.

100 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui | +852 3106 3640

Pacific Place — Admiralty

Pacific Place is hosting Hong Kong's first pop-up store dedicated to the iconic White Rabbit candy.
Pacific Place is hosting Hong Kong’s first pop-up store dedicated to the iconic White Rabbit candy (© Pacific Place via Facebook)

Follow the White Rabbit to Pacific Place, where you can check out the latest offering from the iconic brand — a mango-flavoured candy — at its first pop-up store in the city. There is also a larger-than-life flower-arrangement replica of the eponymous rabbit that is perfect for pics.

88 Queensway, Admiralty | +852 2844 8988

Lee Tung Avenue — Wan Chai

Lee Tung Avenue has a family of five rabbits at its Central Piazza and 688 lanterns suspended above the tree-lined street.
Lee Tung Avenue has a family of five rabbits at its Central Piazza and 688 lanterns suspended above the tree-lined street (© Lee Tung Avenue via Facebook)

Lee Tung Avenue is Rabbit Central this LNY. You’ll find a family of five bunnies at the Central Piazza, as well as colourful sculptures of bunnies on the lampposts at this Wan Chai hot spot. Don’t forget to look up and be wowed by the 688 lanterns suspended above the tree-lined street, which are lit from 5pm onwards.

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200 Queen’s Road East, Wan Chai | +852 3791 2304

Times Square — Causeway Bay

Times Square has two-metre-tall Maneki-neko-inspired Mickey and Donald installations at the Open Piazza.
Times Square has two-metre-tall Maneki-neko-inspired Mickey and Donald installations at the Open Piazza (© Times Square via Facebook)

Times Square has teamed up with local toymaker URDU to design Maneki-neko- and Daruma-inspired versions of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. Visitors to the mall will be greeted by two-metre-tall Mickey and Donald installations at the Open Piazza. There’s also a pop-up store at the Atrium at which shoppers can check out 50 limited-run Disney items and the URDU Fukuheya Disney collection.

1 Matheson Street, Causeway Bay | +852 2118 8900

Harbour City — Tsim Sha Tsui

Popular Korean character Esther Bunny has set up home at Harbour City.
Popular Korean character Esther Bunny has set up home at Harbour City (© Harbour City via Instagram)

Popular Korean character Esther Bunny has hopped over to the 852 to celebrate Chinese New Year, and you can find her at the entrance to LCX at Harbour City. Pose with Esther in her cute home as she cooks in her kitchen, waters her plants, and hangs out in her dressing room.

3/F, Ocean Terminal, 3-27 Canton Road, Tsim Sha Tsui | + 852 2118 8666

Citywalk Tsuen Wan

Citywalk's LEGO Prosperity Burrows Adventureland features a giant rabbit-themed float and a carrot harvest scene.
Citywalk’s LEGO Prosperity Burrows Adventureland features a giant rabbit-themed float and a carrot harvest scene (© Citywalk via Facebook)

Citywalk’s LEGO Prosperity Burrows Adventureland features a giant rabbit-themed float and a carrot harvest scene, as well as a waterfall-wishing well. You can even pick up limited-edition festive Lunar New Year Display and Lunar New Year Parade sets at the LEGO pop-up store.

1 & 18 Yeung Uk Road, Tsuen Wan | +852 3926 5708

MOSTown — Ma On Shan

MOSTown's Lunar New Year display includes set-pieces from 20th-century Hong Kong, including one dedicated to mahjong tiles.
MOSTown’s Lunar New Year display includes set-pieces from 20th-century Hong Kong, including one dedicated to mahjong tiles (© MOSTown via Instagram)

If you yearn to visit a bygone era, MOSTown has set pieces to invoke ’60s and ’70s Hong Kong. Pose for pics at five thematic installations: the Retro Studio, the Grand Living Room, the Bountiful Mah-jong Tiles, the four-metre-tall Resplendent TV Tube, and the Blooming Days.

18 On Luk St, Ma On Shan | +852 2643 9110

Header image credits: Pacific Place via Facebook

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From the Middle East to the Far East and a couple of places in between, Anjali has lived in no fewer than seven cities in Asia, and has travelled extensively in the region. She worked as a lifestyle journalist in India before coming to Hong Kong, where her favourite thing to do is island-hopping with her daughter. You can check out her musings on motherhood, courtesy her Instagram profile.

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