Yiwu is a city in Zhejiang, 100 km south of Hangzhou.

Understand

Yiwu
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Get in

By plage

• Yiwu Airport (YIW), +86 579 8566 5205

By bus

The bus from Shanghai to Yiwu leaves about every hour and is available at various long distance inter-province bus stations (called chang tu ke yun zhan in Chinese). Some stations got more schedules than others. Make sure you know which station you are going to. Again, the hotel staff should be able to give you directions. You may want to go to either the general station (or Ke yun Zong zhan at No. 1662 of Zhongxing Road) or Pacific Station (tai ping yang station at No. 710 Hengfeng Road.)

See

• 1 Yiwu Museum, 126号 Chengzhong North Road, ☏ +86 579 8554 0405. 08:30-11:00, 14:00-16:30 (break time 11:00-14:00, every Monday).  
• 2 Xiuhu Park (绣湖公园), Beimen Street (in the southwest of Yiwu Municipal Government). 24 hr. Yiwu Xiuhu Park is a large open public green space and an important part of the project of rebuilding Yiwu old City and improving the landscape of the central urban area in 2000. 
• 3 Chouzhou Park (稠州公园), No. 221 Chouzhou Middle Road, Choucheng Street(稠城街道稠城街道稠州中路221号). ¥2. 
• Jiangbin Park, Jiangbin Middle Road.  
• Ocean World, Jiangbin Middle Road.  
• Yiwu Stadium.  
• Binwang Bridge, Binwang Road.  
• 4 Hengdian World Studios (横店影视城), Hengdian, Dongyang, Zhejiang, ☏ +86 579 86547211. Film studio used for the filming of Chinese period dramas, with a huge backlot featuring outdoor sets from different periods of Chinese history from the Qin Dynasty all the way up to the Republic of China era. Among the highlights is a replica of the Forbidden City, as well as a replica of the palace of Qin Shihuang, the first emperor of China. It is still in active use, and you could potentially catch some filming in action if you are lucky. In addition to Chinese period dramas, it is also often used in the filming of Korean period dramas for the scenes that are set in China. ¥180. (updated Aug 2022)

Do

• Yiwu Paradise, Jiangbin Middle Road, ☏ +86 579 8532 5088. An amusement park with three steel sit-down roller coasters. 
• Yiwu Theater, 1号 Chezhan Road, ☏ +86 579 8552 2324.  

Buy

The town has a large market with quite a range of goods. There are few Western residents, but many from India, Pakistan, and the Middle East. Many do some sort of import/export business. Binwang market has cloth, clothing, furnishings. International Trade City and the Futian Market has many small commodities including housewares, jewellery, beads, gifts, religious and seasonal goods.

Sleep

• Tian Heng International Hotel, 677 Danxi North Road (in the Bei Yuan Industrial Zone, next to the Hangzhou-Jinhua-Quzhou Expressway), ☏ +86 579-85888888, fax: +86 579-85116817.  
• Yindu Hotel, No.168 Binwang Road. Close to Binwang Market, 2 km to International Trade City (Futian Market) 
• The Best Western Premier Yiwu Ocean Hotel, No. 99 Futian Road. Close to the International Trade City and the Futian Market. 
• YiWu Yihe Hotel, No. 2 Gongren Beilu. Close to Binwang Market 
• 1 Bali Plaza Hotel, 138 Chengzhong Middle Road. Adjacent to the municipal government. The hotel features a high-end exotic restaurant, coffee shop and sauna center and decorated by the combination of modern and Bali-style design.