Kindo — 金都 in Chinese, also written as Kindo Fashion Market or Kindo International Garment City — is one of the buildings inside the No. 57 Zhanxi Road compound, about five minutes on foot from Guangzhou Railway Station. It is not the largest building in the district and it is not the cheapest. It is eight floors, roughly 800 stalls and about 30,000 square metres, rebuilt in 2011 on the site of an older market.
The split that matters is horizontal, not vertical in the way most guides describe it. The lower floors sell to anybody who walks in, including retail customers buying a single piece. The upper floors take orders only. There is no showroom floor of brand offices at the top, whatever you may have read elsewhere — the top floors are still stalls, they just work differently.
What Kindo is not: it is not a womenswear fast-fashion hall (that is Shisanhang and Shahe), it is not a fabric market (that is Zhongda), and it is not a production base. If you need 500 pieces of one style with your own label, no market stall in this building will do it. Markets are for seeing, comparing and sampling. Production happens somewhere else.
The address is 站西路 57 号 — Zhanxi Road, No. 57, Yuexiu District. Take metro Line 2 or Line 5 to Guangzhou Railway Station and leave by exit G or H; follow the Zhanxi Road signs and you are there in five to ten minutes. If you are coming by taxi, say 站西路 57 号金都服装城, not just “Kindo”, because the driver will otherwise drop you at the compound gate and let you work it out.
Here is the part that catches first-time buyers. No. 57 is a compound, not a single building. It is divided into numbered blocks — block 1, block 2 and so on — but nobody uses the numbers, including most taxi drivers. Everyone refers to a block by the name on its facade, which is why the same street address seems to describe completely different places depending on who you ask.
Three of those names belong to one connected complex: Jinbao (金宝), Kindo (金都) and Jinmei (金美). They are separate buildings with separate names, but they are joined internally — you can walk from one to the next without going back out onto Zhanxi Road, and buyers treat the three as a single market. Kindo is at Gate 2, Jinmei is the outermost of the three on the street side, and several of the entrances are signed 金宝服装城 (Jinbao Garment City) whichever of the three you are actually walking into. That sign is the single biggest reason people think they have arrived at the wrong place.
Inside, the three are more alike than different. Clothing dominates, menswear and womenswear share the same floors rather than splitting by level, and shoes, bags, underwear, hats, perfume and glasses are mixed in among the clothing stalls.
Kairongdu (凯荣都) is the exception. It is block 1 of the same No. 57 address but it is not connected to the other three: it sits next door to Jinmei, on the same stretch of Zhanxi Road, with a ground-level pedestrian lane between them. Getting from Jinmei across to Kairongdu means coming out and crossing. It is a different kind of building as well — export and wholesale, mostly bulk and made-to-order — so a container buyer is normal there rather than unusual. Its floors are not zoned by product either: mostly clothing, with a smaller number of shoe, bag and accessory stalls in between.
Opening hours are the same story across all four. Each stall opens and closes when it likes, roughly 10:00 to 19:30 or 20:00, and the ones doing well are the ones that open early.
If you arrive at No. 57 expecting one market and find four names instead, this is why.
For the rest of the district — Shisanhang, Shahe, Baima, Xintang and the stocklot buildings — see our Guangzhou wholesale clothing markets guide.
Most stalls open after 10:00 and close around 20:00. There is no building-wide opening time — each stall sets its own, and the ones doing well open early and stay late while others drift in closer to eleven. Treat 10:00 to 20:00 as the published window and 10:30 to 16:00 as the window when everything is actually open and staffed.
Sunday is not a closing day for the market as a whole, but individual stalls close when they like. If there is one supplier you specifically need to see, message them the day before rather than turning up and hoping. The same applies to the days around Chinese New Year, when the whole district shuts down for the holiday and stock movement stops for a couple of weeks on either side. Plan shipments around that window rather than through it.
The simple way to read the building: if a stall has racks of stock out front, it is a retail floor. If it has a few samples and a desk, it is an order floor.
| Floor | What is there | How it sells |
|---|---|---|
| B1 – 3F | Main trading floors. Menswear in the majority, with womenswear, childrenswear and accessories mixed in. | Retail and small wholesale. One piece is fine. |
| 3F – 4F | Suits, jackets and down jackets, at friendlier prices than the upper floors. Clearance and special-offer stock is common. | Retail and small wholesale. One piece is fine. |
| 5F – 7F | Stalls, not offices. Wholesale and order-taking, mostly menswear and outerwear. | Order only. No stock on hand, no retail. |
The upper floors are the part most guides get wrong. They are described as brand offices or showrooms; in practice they are stalls run by people who hold samples and take orders. The atmosphere is quieter, the product is better, and the conversation is a different one — you are not haggling over one jacket, you are discussing a range and a delivery date.
This is the number worth knowing before you go. On the upper floors the minimum is roughly five pieces per style, mixed sizes and colours usually accepted. That is unusually low for an order floor and it is why Kindo is a good place to sample rather than a good place to produce.
Downstairs, one piece is fine. Nobody will refuse you for buying a single shirt, though you will pay a retail price for it.
Five pieces is not a production run, and it is not meant to be. If you are testing a design, selling through a small boutique or building a sample range, five is workable. Once you are past roughly a hundred pieces per style you are paying market prices for something a proper supplier can make to your own specification, at your own quality level, with your label inside it — which is a different conversation with a different kind of supplier.
Walk-in prices at Kindo, as of late 2026: suits from around ¥1,000, shirts from ¥100, knitwear from ¥200. If you have read an older guide quoting a ¥300 suit, that price no longer exists. Part of the increase is ordinary inflation; most of it is positioning.
A large share of what is sold in this building is lookalike product — designs that closely follow European and Korean labels, sometimes with logos that sit one letter or one stroke away from the original. That is why the prices sit closer to branded retail than to commodity wholesale: you are being charged for design work that was borrowed, not paid for.
If you are shipping to the United States or the European Union, this matters more than the price. Counterfeit goods are seized at customs, listings are taken down, and in the EU the goods can be destroyed at your cost. The seller carries none of that risk. You do.
The legitimate route through this building is to buy unbranded product and put your own label on it. That is ordinary OEM work, it is what most serious buyers in this district are doing, and it does not involve anyone else’s logo. The rule is simple enough to apply on the spot: if the logo is not theirs and not yours, walk away.
Kindo works best as part of a morning rather than a destination on its own. A route that covers the ground without wasting the afternoon:
Carry cash. Some stalls take cards and most accept Alipay, but cash still settles arguments and gets better prices on the spot. Bring a tape measure, a size spec sheet for whatever you normally buy, and a business card with your company name on it — the moment you look like a business rather than a tourist, the quotes change.
Most stalls open after 10:00 and close around 20:00, but there is no fixed building-wide schedule. Between 10:30 and 16:00 everything is open and staffed.
The market does not close as a whole on Sunday, but individual stalls take days off whenever they choose. Message the stall you need before you go.
Yes, on the lower floors. One piece is fine and nobody will turn you away. The five-piece minimum applies to the order floors on 5F to 7F.
No. There is no registration and no buyer card. You walk in.
Some stalls accept cards, most accept Alipay. Cash is still the most reliable option and the fastest way to negotiate.
Yes. 金都服装城, Kindo Fashion Market, Kindo Mall and Kindo International Garment City all refer to the same building at Zhanxi Road No. 57. Note that it is not the same as Jindu (锦都) clothing city, which is a different building in the same district.
Yes, effectively. Jinbao (金宝) and Kindo (金都) are two names on the same connected complex at Zhanxi Road No. 57 — you can walk between them without leaving the building, and Jinmei (金美) is the third. Several of the entrances are signed 金宝服装城, Jinbao Garment City, so the name on the door may not match the building you are standing in.
If what you actually need is production rather than a morning of shopping — your own label, your own size grading, a consistent quality level across repeat orders — a market stall will not get you there, and neither will five pieces. That is the point at which buyers normally start talking to a sourcing partner: sampling first, then a production run with the specification and the label written into it.
We have been sourcing and shipping garments out of Guangzhou since 2012, for brands in the US, Europe and Australia. If you are planning a visit to the Zhanxi Road markets and want a second opinion on what you are being quoted, or you want to turn a sample you found at Kindo into an actual production order, send us the details and we will come back within 24 hours.