Antiques and Arts

Panjiayuan Market

18 Huaweili, Panjiayuan Lu, Chaoyang District

Saturday and Sunday, Dawn? p.m.

+86 10 6775 2405

34, 36, 368, 757, 800

Known locally as the Dirt Market (or Sunday Market), this is the place for antiques, arts and crafts and old-style furniture. A fascinating once-in-a-lifetime shopping opportunity, don't forget to haggle! Authentic, dusty, filled with curios, humorous local characters, bustle and noise! Keep a close watch on personal belongings as it can get pretty crowded.

 

Liulichang

Hepingmenwai, Xuanwu District      7, 14, 15

Beijing's best known antique street. You can find old Chinese books, traditional paintings and brushes. The best place to get your very own Chinese name stamp. Take the subway to Hepingmen, and walk half way down Nanxinhua Jie.

 

Beijing Curio City

27 Dongsanhuan Nanlu, Chaoyang District

+86 10 6773 6003          

28, 300, 368

Asia's biggest curio arts and crafts trade centre, the Beijing Curio City is a four-storey complex that houses scores of kitsch and curio shops and a few furniture vendors. The market specializes in antique pottery, paintings from China and foreign countries, jade ware, bone carvings, antique furniture, antique carpets, antique timepieces, pearls and jade. Many of the dealers are themselves connoisseurs and curio collectors.

 

Chaowai Furniture Warehouse

43 Huawei Beili, Chaoyang District

+86 10 6770 6402   

36, 368

Facing to Panjiayuan Market, Chaowai Furniture Warehouse features in different style. It sells furniture and decorative items like vases and statues with traditional Chinese character. 

 

Friendship Store

17 Jianguomenwai Dajie, Chaoyang District

+86 10 6500 3311

Subway: Line 1, Jianguomen Station; Bus: 1, 4, 728

Located on Jianguomenwai Dajie (two blocks east of the East Second Ring Road), the Friendship Store provides upscale traditional Chinese goods including silk clothing, jewellery, authentic furniture, quality carpets and handmade rugs. A 10-minute walk from Jianguomen Subway Exit B.

 

Gaobeidian

Gaobeidian Village, Chaoyang District

+86 10 8576 6356    

312, 397, 728, 847

Since September 2004, Beijing's largest antique and imitation-Chinese-furniture market. Old furniture collected from Shanxi and Hebei provinces and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region can be found here.

 

Wangfujing Arts & Crafts Building

Wangfujing Dajie, Dongcheng District

+86 10 6528 8866

Subway: Line 1, Wangfujing Station; Bus: 1, 4, 10, 20, 728