Maliandao Tea Street

Not far from Beijing West Railway Station there is Maliandao, known as “The First Tea Street in Beijing.” This 1,500-meter-long street is home to over 100 tea shops and 5 tea trade centers, with quality tea from Zhejiang Province, Fujian Province, Anhui Province, Yunnan Province and Guizhou Province- all corners ofaround the country. The tea business here creates an annual sales volume of 2.5 billion Yuan, accounting for 1/10 of the national consumption. Now, Maliandao Tea Street has become the largest tea market in the north part, the largest tea distributing center in north China.

Walking into a tea shop at random, the owner will warmly welcome you. If you haven’t decided which kind of tea to buy, you can have a cup of fragrant tea in the shop and the owner will spend time you to chat about tea. In addition to the tea shops, the street also has other business like B&Q and Carrefour.

Address: Maliandao, Fengtai District

Subway Route: Take Subway Line 7 and get off at Wanzi Station

Sanlitun Bar Street

Located in the east side of Sanlitun North Road, Chaoyang District, Sanlitun Bar Street is the earliest bar groups in Beijing. Foreigners have become the fixed consumers to the bar street for its adjacent to 79 state of the embassies including Canada, Australia, France, Belgium, Germany etc. In recent years, the white-collars, entertainers, and local and foreign tourists also became frequenters of the bar street. So bar street enjoys good fame, and even some foreign embassies have changed their house numbers to sanlitun bar street.

Address: Sanlitun, Chaoyang District

Subway Route: Take Subway Line 10 and get off at Tuanjiehu Station

Wangfujing Walking Street

Enjoying the reputation of “Golden Street” in Beijing, Wangfujing Walking Street is a famous commercial zone with hundreds years’ history. It has now become a comprehensive commercial pedestrian street with a large amount of goods that are highly popular. It formed as the “gold cross” structure after its transformation.

It is the most famous commercial street in Beijing, to the west there is Beijing Department Store that is nationally renowned, to the west is the well-known Beijing APM, and the largest Arts & Crafts Store in China, the largest Xinhua Bookstore, Foreign Language Bookstore, the largest-scale China Studio, Sports Center, Medical Equipment Store, Wangfujing Shopping Mall and Muslim Trade Building etc.

It also brimming with time-honoured brands and newly emerging shops such as Shengxifu Hatter Shop, Tongbihe Shores Shop, New World Silk Shop, Grass Ginseng Antler Pharmacy and Bichun Tea Shop etc.

Location: Wangfujing Street, Dongcheng District

Subway Route: Take Subway Line 1 and get off at Wangfujing Station