Shopping in Hangzhou

Shopping in Hangzhou

If you are in Hangzhou and are a complete shopping freak and love to shop till you drop then there is a reason to rejoice since Hangzhou is considered as "shopper's paradise". If you are on a shopping spree and wish to splurge your money on all those exquisite crafts, local hand made products and souvenirs , then this city has everything to offer. It offers a superb collection of crafts and other local items. Some typical Hangzhou specialties and souvenirs that you may take from here are Hangzhou Silk, Hangzhou Embroidery, West Lake Silk Umbrellas, Tianzhu Bamboo Chopsticks, as well as White Chrysanthemum Tea and world-famous Longjing Tea.
If you are a hard bargainer and want to shop at a place where you can get best deals & value for money, then head out to the market that opens every evening on Wushan Road. For souvenirs this market is the right place. Here you can avoid the high prices at Hangzhou's many tourist shops. Bargaining is not only recommended, it is required! Bargain hard and you will go home with some great deals. Many things are open to negotiation, even when there is a purchace price written on them.

Hangzhou silk is very famous here and people are often seen to buy this as a souvenir. Hangzhou has a great outdoor silk market called the China Silk City (Zhongguo Sichou Cheng) on Fengqi Lu that runs for two blocks. Most of silk that is available here is artificial though some of the shops has real silk too. For buying real silk in Hangzhou you may have to pay a high price since real silk is expensive here.

If you are among those who prefer shopping at the indoor stores and bargaining is not your forte then explore stores like the Hangzhou Friendship Store or the shops along Jiefang Road or Yan'an Road.
The Yan'an Road is most prosperous commercial area in Hangzhou City, giving you a complete shopping experience. Shopping centers stand in great numbers along this road offering a great variety of goods on sale, which cater to the demands of Chinese and foreign visitors at different levels. There are as many as 155 shopping centers around this place. Around the Wulin Square there are large shopping facilities such as the "Bada", "Guoda", the shopping center of the Hangzhou Mansion, and the Wanjiawu Supermarket, forming a facility concentrated block for visitors to go shopping. For the convenience of the shoppers , designated shopping centers and special counters have been set up for purchasing the local products. In the West Lake scenic zone and the Song City, there are more than 10 kinds of tourist souvenirs reflecting features of these spots.
If shopping to you means buying clothes , clothes and more clothes then you would love to visit Si Ji Ching clothes market .The amount of clothes this market offers is just unbelievable, which probably is because of the fact that textiles is a huge business in Zhejiang province. Being the retailers' shopping paradise, prices are lower there than on the high street.

Other designated International tourists shopping centres in Hangzhou are as follows :
Hangzhou Jinxiujiangnan Art Store
Hangzhou Shaozhiyan Pen Store
Hangzhou Letian Craftwork Store
Hangzhou West Lake Dragon's Well Green Tea Inc.
Hangzhou Jinsha Habor Tourist & Cultural Village Shopping Center
Hangzhou Jiangnan Pearl House.
Hangzhou Wenchalou Tourist Souvenir Store

With such array of shopping centres in Hangzhou it sure lives upto its name and reputation of being a "shoppers paradise". So free your spirits, indulge yourself completely in the shopping spree in this splendid city. You definitely won't mind if you have to loosen you purse strings for all the exquisite stuff that this place has to offer since you don't want to leave with the regret that you didn't go shopping in this "shoppers paradise".

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