Jinli Ancient Street

锦里古街

After visiting Wuhou Temple in Chengdu, I came to visit Jinli Ancient Street. Jinli is part of the Wuhou Temple Museum in Chengdu. It is now a special commercial street in Chengdu. There are many shops in the ancient street.

Every day is a lot of people, no tickets to face mask, there are many delicious Sichuan snacks, there are elegant teahouses to watch music performance, and two or three friends, a bamboo chair, drinking tea chat, look at the crowd, and other flavors.

You cannot really miss this as a tourist to Chengdu. Although it is quite crowded, just soaking up the atmosphere, shopping for souvenirs and trying the many street food options is really worth your while. Not surprisingly, many of the souvenirs are panda related but some of the porselein souvenirs are really better quality. To soak in the atmosphere and explore you need at least two hours.

This was a good visit. The place has a lot of food options. I loved some ‘Bingfen’ (ice jelly sort of thing). The area is picturesque and you’ll find tourists snapping photos around. Plethora of artistic shops - from calligraphy to paper cutting and edible sugar blown candies. We enjoyed a relaxed tea ceremony with a mix of jasmine tea and green tea from Chengdu.

A place full of people, loaded with very extremely delicious Sichuan style of food and variety of yummy desserts.

I loved walking through Jinli ancient street. There were many shops selling stuff and stalls selling Chengdu famous snacks. The place was very big and we spent many hours walking through it but still had not been able to cover the whole place. I would suggest for visitors to go in the afternoon and stayed till evening where you were able to see the faves of the ancient street in day light and when the buildings and streets lighted up in bright lights. The ancient street looked beautiful at night. This is a must-go place for tourists!

I especially love visiting Jinli Ancient Street. The ancient town is quaint and has a strong atmosphere of the old times. The shopping area is also very large, there are many snacks, many restaurants, and many shops selling things. Especially at night, when the house and street lights are on, Jinli is even more beautiful! I didn't think it was enough after 3 hours of shopping inside. Friends who want to visit Jinli, if you are going for the first time, I suggest to give more time, from afternoon to evening.

So much bettee thwn your average pedestrian street!great selection of foos, bars ans traditional Sichuan knick knacks and services. a must visit in the evening in Chengdu