First Market (seafood market)
第一市场 · Dìyī Shìchǎng
Sanya’s busiest old market in the centre, where you buy live seafood at the stalls and have it cooked at one of the small restaurants around it.
No booking needed1–2 hours (with a meal)
Tip
Agree the price per jin and the cooking fee before anything is weighed or cooked, and re-check the weight on the market’s public scale.
- Opening hours
- Market stalls roughly 07:00–20:00; the seafood-cooking restaurants around it stay open until late evening. To be confirmed
- Price
- Free to enter. Seafood is priced per jin (500 g); cooking is charged per jin or per dish, roughly ¥15–30. To be confirmed
- How to book
- No booking. Pay the stall and the restaurant separately by Alipay, WeChat Pay or cash.
- Getting there
- In the old centre west of the Sanya River: about 10 min by taxi or DiDi from Dadonghai or Sanya Bay; many buses stop at Jiefang Road (解放路) To be confirmed
- Address in Chinese
- 海南省三亚市天涯区新建街第一市场
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