Kashgar Zhiren Handicrafts Street

Overview
Zhiren Street is the street featured with Kashgar local handicrafts. Kashgar has a long history of producting handicrafts, and enjoys a high reputation of "the Centre of Folk Handicraft”. These handicrafts are not only popular in kashgar, but also popular in West Asia and Europe though the ancient Silk Road.
The street is the most characteristic and unique place showing off the distinctive customs and cultures of Kashgar of Xinjiang.

What to See & Do in Zhiren Street
When you come here and want to take some local handicrafts back to home, it's an ideal place to do shopping in Kashgar. The street is home to hundreds of handicrafts workshops and stalls. Visitors can have an eyeful of dazzling golden and silver jewelery, crusted wooden carvings, superb copper/brass ware, exquisite Uyghur musical instruments, colorful silk fabrics, crafted folk knives and many more crafts items. The street is bustling with veiled Muslim women, local vendors, and even merchants from central Asia. The Uyghur knife which has very exquisite inlaid handle and sharp cutting edge is very popular.

Basic Information
Location: Located in the city center of Kashagr,close to the Id Kah Mosque
Entrance Fee: Free
Opening Hours: whole day
How to get there:1) Take city bus No.77 & No.13 can reach the Handicrafts Street directly; 2) Take taxi