Tip: Buy dried persimmon, walnuts and rose cakes here. The food stalls are the real reason to come.
Watch outNuts and dried fruit are sold by the jin (500g), and some stalls quote per half-jin to make the number look smaller. Confirm the unit before agreeing.
2. Shuyuanmen Cultural Street
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The calligraphy street inside the south gate — brushes, ink stones, seals, rubbings and paper, plus carvers who will cut a chop while you wait.
Watch outThe official site shop and the roadside stalls sell near-identical replicas at wildly different prices. Nothing sold anywhere is genuinely ancient.
4. Xi'an Bell Tower shopping district
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The central commercial area around the Bell Tower — Kaiyuan department store, underground arcades and the Luomashi pedestrian street.
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