Bashi (No. 8 Market)
第八市场（八市） · Dì-bā Shìchǎng (Bāshì)
Xiamen’s most famous wet market in the old arcade streets near the harbour: live seafood, dried fish, fruit and old snack shops that locals have used for generations.
No booking needed1–1.5 hours
Tip
Go in the morning with small change in WeChat Pay or Alipay. Some stalls will cook seafood you buy for a fee; agree on the weight and price first.
- Opening hours
- Roughly early morning to about 18:00; busiest and freshest before 10:00 To be confirmed
- Price
- Free to enter
- How to book
- Walk in.
- Getting there
- BRT to Kaihe Lukou (开禾路口), then a short walk; about 10 min walk from the north end of Zhongshan Road To be confirmed
- Address in Chinese
- 福建省厦门市思明区开禾路第八市场
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