Beijing Lu Pedestrian Street Address: 295 Beijing Rd., Guangzhou Open Hours: 09:45-22:00
Beijing Road Pedestrian Street is the main shopping thoroughfare, a pedestrian street where most stores are open from 9am to 10pm. Avoid touts who solicit pirated DVDs and imitation goods, and whomever you have to follow into the small dark alleys in between buildings to see the goods.
The Mayflower Plaza, at the northern end of the Pedestrian Street is a place where young people hang out and shop. Beijing Road Pedestrian Street is home to over ten large and medium sized shopping centers, such as Xindaxin, Grandbuy, several theme bookstores respectively selling dictionaries, education, culturally old, music, fine arts and children''s books, Changjiang Musical Instruments Store, Sanduoxuan and Jiya-zhai Studios featuring Chinese traditional stationeries, paintings and calligraphies, Yanfang Photo Studio etc..
And you have to avoid touts who solicit pirated DVDs and imitation goods, and whomever you have to follow into the small dark alleys in between buildings to see the goods.
Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Streets Address: Xiajiu Rd. Liwan District.Guangzhou Open Hours: 10:00-23:00
Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street is one of the major traditional shopping streets in Guangzhou. About 250 shops, mainly of garments, shoes and food, and malls are lined in this downtown span of some 800 meters.
This shopping area is also a showcase of traditional Cantonese architecture, especially pretty at night when the lights are lit up. oduct here is mainly for medium-and-minus consumption groups. You can find bunches of historically local famous names of commerce, such as Heling''s Shoes & Hats, Guangzhou Department Store for Women and Children, Xingping Tailoring and Hualin Jade and Jewellery Market here, prices are generally lower, and you could prepare to bargain a fair bit .
Zhuangyuan-Fang Alley Address: Renming Nan Rd. Liwan District.Guangzhou Open Hours: 09:30-18:30
Is a Showcase of local youngsters' shopping craze, featuring stationery, gifts, clothes, pets and fun items in the narrow and crowded alley close to Shangxiajiu Street.
Zhuangyuan-Fang has a history. It was once a lane where people sold speciality goods like Cantonese Opera costumes and other stage costumes, and temple fair ornaments. At that time, the goods ranged from big things like a whole set of costumes to small items like pearl hairpins. All this has now been reduced to only a few stores selling this type of thing. But the world has changed. Zhuangyuan-fang has become a street for the in-neration, the avant garde, the new, voguey younger generation of Guangzhou.
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