Situated in the east of Yuen Long town, Kam Tin, formerly known as Sham Tin (岑田), is part of our artsy places to-do list in Hong Kong. This place is full of art, culture, and history. As it can be difficult hiking the mountains during the rains, we decided to stick to some flat walks to hit our daily mark of 10k steps!

As the rains started kicking in, Kam Tim Village is one such place you can explore during the rains. The overcast weather brings out the colour in the pictures.

Below we will share the top 5 things to do in Kam Tin on a rainy day.

Top 5 things to do

1. Artsy Mural Village

If you search for Kam Tim village, you will see images of colorful village walls, unlike a few years ago. Hong Kong Teachers Dream Fund funded the project under the sponsorship of Dulux's ‘Let’s Colour’ initiative. Jess Kwok an art teacher led this project and collaborated with the volunteers such as local artists, residents, and secondary school students to create designs and paint the murals on walls, shop-fronts, metal fences, and shutters.

‘Love’ was the central theme for most of these murals to transform the isolated village into a colourful Hong Kong suburb and attract more people to this part of the town. You can find more pictures of various murals here.

Address: Kam Tin Art Village, Kam Tin Main Road, Kam Tin, and you can also follow the map here for other locations.

Here is a full video of Kam Tin

List of top 5 things to do in Kam Tin on a rainy day

2. Ancient Walled Village

Unlike the Kowloon Walled city park, Kam Tin has an ancient walled village known as Kat Hing Wai Village. Home to around 400 descendants of the Tang clan, one of the five greatest clans of the territory and original settlers of Hong Kong.

There is only one entrance gate to this village. In the 17th century, 18-inch thick walls protected this village. Back in the day, these walls and cannon watch towers on all four corners protected the residents from bandits, pirates, rival clans, and wild animals. One can also see the remains of a moat outside the walled village.

Inside the village are narrow alleys branching out in both directions, and the main path leads to an ancestral shrine. In 2010, the entrance gate, the shrine, the four watchtowers, and the enclosing walls of Kat Hing Wai were collectively listed as Grade I historic buildings.

Also located in the neighbourhood are three other walled villages, Wing Lung Wai, Tai Hong Wai, and Kam Hing Wai, built around the same period.

Address: Kat Hing Wai, Kam Tin, Yuen Long

3. Red Brick House Market

If being outdoor in the rain and exploring art is not your thing, there is an indoor market you don’t want to miss. A Victorian-style Red Brick house was a former candle factory transformed into a massive handicraft bazaar or a marketplace.

This marketplace hosts over 50 shops, each unique in its own way. Here, you will find 70s Levi’s at its vintage stores, local handicrafts, bakery and cafes, candle shop and workshops, collectibles shops, flowers, figurines, and toys shops.

Inside the market, hidden in a corner, is a Moroccan-style cafe, a popular spot for photo lovers. This cafe puts your name on their waitlist and allots a fixed time to enter, eat and take pictures.

You can find more details here.

Address: Red Brick House Red Brick House, Kam Tin Ancestral Hall Village, Yuen Long, New Territories, Lot 390 to 400

4. Shipping Containers Mall

Hong Kong is a port country and one of the sea freight hubs in Asia. It deals with a lot of containers. And in such a busy port country, when creativity meets a good cause, ‘out of the box’ thinking happens. Meet Kam Tin village's beautiful and unique container shopping mall, The Richfield, built from the containers.

The Richfield features shops such as cafes, MF bakery, snack shop, beauty salons, toys shop for kids, pet grooming, and cycle shop. The Richfield mall feels like a toned-down, posh version of the Lai Kok Shipping Container mall in the Kowloon district. Check out the video of the Lai Kok container mall here.

Address: The Richfield, 236 Kat Hing Wai, Kam Tin, Yuen Long

5. Kok Kok Thai restaurant

After strolling for a while, it was time for lunch. We bumped into this small Thai restaurant with a big queue of people waiting outside and great reviews on openrice.

Kok Kok is a Thai restaurant located at Kam Tin Shing Mun New Village road. Further away from Red Brick house and close to Kam Tin Post office near the mural village. Their menu offers various dishes for vegetarians, Buddhist-friendly, non-egg, and milk options. One of the best Thai restaurants feels like you are in Thailand. This place was quite popular around lunchtime, and the waiting time was roughly 20 minutes.

We ordered hot Thai milk tea as every table had a hot or cold version. For starters, we ordered vegetarian spring rolls, fried wontons, and the main course, vegetable curry with rice and Pad Thai. Overall it was a great experience and worth the wait.

Address: Kok Kok, G/F, 90 Shing Mun San Tsuen, Kam Tin, Yuen Long

Getting here

You can get here by MTR Tuen Ma line and get off at Kam Sheung Road MTR station. You can also use our google map route link shared here, to guide you with our top 5 locations.

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Rainy Day at Kam Tin