The characteristics of Barkhor Street in Lhasa are as follows:
Barkhor Street retains the original features of the ancient city of Lhasa,
The street is paved with hand-polished stones, and
Old-fashioned Tibetan houses are reserved next to it.
There is a giant incense burner in the center of the street, filled with fireworks day and night.
There are many shops on both sides of the street, including more than 12 handicraft shops and more than 2 stalls, more than 1,3 businessmen, and more than 8, kinds of commodities, including religious articles such as bronze Buddha, prayer wheel, prayer flags, scriptures, prayer beads, tributes, pine and cypress branches, card mats and shuttlecocks. In addition, there are commodities from India, Nepal, Myanmar, Kashmir and other places. The main shops of Tibetan Dao are Xiamao Gabu, Maggie Ami Tavern, Snowland Thangka Handicraft Shop, Bondachang, etc. There are many places of interest in the street, including Xiami Courtyard, Yinjing Courtyard, the ruins of Sid Temple, Canggu nunnery and small mosque, and 12 Lacan temples, including Songzan Gambu Palace, Songqu fever site of Buddhist debate field of Zong Kaba, founder of Yellow Sect, and Tunmi, founder of Tibetan. Sambuza's mansion has been stationed in the yamen of 84 ministers stationed in Tibet, the former Lhasa public security agency and the Langzixia prison. In addition, it has become an important folk cultural landscape for believers to turn the scriptures clockwise around Jokhang Temple in the morning and evening.