Ticket Fee :Free
Opening Hours :Whole day
Traffic :Take the bus No.810,812,109
DCT Tips :when you want to buy something, you can bargain them down by half or more (that is if you are good at bargaining).
Brief Introduction :
Brief Introduction
Silk Street is located at 8 East Xiu Shui Street, Jian Guo Men Wai Da Jie. Anyway, it is east of Tiananmen Square.
Silk Street is a shopping center in Beijing that accommodates over 1,700 retail vendors, notorious among international tourists for their wide selection of counterfeit designer brand apparels.
The Silk Street (aka Xiushui Market) attracts approximately 20,000 visitors daily (from 9am to 9pm) on weekdays and between 50,000 and 60,000 on weekends as of 2006. This 35,000-square-meter complex houses 1,700 retail vendors and over 3,000 salespeople spread over seven floors with three levels of basements. Many of the stalls have, over the years, gained local and international reputation for selling counterfeit luxury designer brands at relatively-low prices. Some have carried on this trademark despite growing pressures from the management, the Chinese government and famous brand-name companies.
Features
The best part of all, Silk Street was built for foreigners like you and me.
Silk Street is a Mall selling almost everything and that includes counterfeit designers´ clothes Chinese artwork, designer leather bags, sportswear, kitchen appliances, electronic and lots more.