In front of the Yu garden, there is a market called Yu Market (Old Town Bazaar), it is also called Yu Market in Chinese.  Before 1949, Yu Market was first a holiday market engaged in sales of folk antiques and handicrafts, named as "the market with the most diversified collections" and "the largest collecting and distributing center of handicrafts ".

The Yu market takes up an area of more than 50 hectares with 3000 booths and nearly 10,000 employees, selling all kinds of folk antiques, handicrafts and second-hands. The market attracts 60,000 to 90,000 tourists per day.

Yu Market is also a good place to buy traditional Chinese foods, clothes, shoes, ect.  You will see that most of the stores promote their goods in various languages. They offer a wide variety, including curtains, tablecloths, bedding, earrings, and watches as well as clothes, inexpensive caps, and shoes of excellent workmanship. If you want to buy something, you should check with more than one store and haggle over the price.