Quezon City can be called the shopping mecca of the country, where each of its 17 shopping malls sits center stage in practically every dense community cluster in the city. Among these are the giant SM City complex plus the three other SM malls around the city, the Robinsons and Ever malls, the new Gateway and Shopwise shopping complexes, and the giant Ayala shopping complex called Trinoma. In these malls and throughout the City are a wide array of restaurants, more than 300 of which can fit your pleasure - from fine dining to fastfood. Its Timog area has gained a reputation as a restaurant row, and Eastwood City is practically a dining village, while hosting the largest cluster of call centers in the City.
Media center. Quezon City has been known as the center of media operations because of the high concentration of radio and television stations here, prompting many to call this City as the entertainment capital of the country. Located here are 9 television networks, including the two biggest in the country -- ABS-CBN and GMA Network. There are also 13 radio stations and 4 print media offices. It is a well-known locus of government operations, being host to 125 national government offices and 25 government-owned and controlled corporations, including the House of Representatives.
Health and wellness capital. A fast-evolving reputation is that of being the wellness capital of the Philippines. It is the best place to be when you need easy access to medical care. In the country, Quezon City has the most number of hospitals, with the biggest bed capacity. Among the 20 government and private hospitals here are the internationally known Philippine Heart Center, the National Kidney and Transplant Institute, the Philippine Lung Center and the St. Luke's Medical Center.
The medical facilities fit nicely into a dense, complementary wellness cluster filled in by physical fitness centers, health clinics, alternative healing centers, spas, beauty and cosmetology centers, as well as medicine and medical equipment companies, which puts Quezon well into the center of the health and medical tourism industry.
Strategic transit point. Quezon City sits at the heart of Metro Manila. It is easily accessible from the major highways, thoroughfares and mass transit systems of Metro Manila. EDSA, the longest highway in the metropolis and Commonwealth Avenue, the country's widest highway, run through the City. So expansive is Quezon City that its eastern areas are also connected to the main C-5 highway.
Two elevated light rail systems make commuting easy, to and from Quezon City: MRT 2 at Aurora Boulevard in the highly commercial Cubao area (R-6), connecting Santolan (Pasig City) and Claro M. Recto Avenue (Manila), and MRT 3 at EDSA (C-4), from Taft Avenue (R-2 in Pasay City) to North Avenue.
The City offers easy access to the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) that takes travelers to such destinations as Clark, Subic, Pangasinan, La Union and Baguio. It also has numerous bus terminals from where one can take a land trip to provinces in Luzon, as well as in the Visayas.
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