Located in the old city of Lhasa, Barkhor Street is a well-preserved old town of Lhasa and one of the top tourist destinations in Tibet. As the most famous prayer road and travel commercial center, Barkhor Street has fully demonstrated with the original style of the ancient city of Lhasa.

The history of the Barkhor Street could date back to 1300 years which is almost as old as the Jokhang Temple since Songtsen Gampo chose Lhasa as the capital city of Tibet in the seventh century. Since the construction of the Jokhang Temple, the Barkhor Street formed. This millennium street is one of the characteristics and charm of China and known as the world's most historical and cultural blocks and microcosm of the history of Tibet with religious, cultural, tourism and business.

In the No.24 yard of Barkhor Street, there stands a ordinary two-storey small building named "Qu Jie Po Zhang” which is the famous "palace", one of the four major palaces and also the first house in Barkhor Street. It is a simple palace built by Songtsen Gampo for himself before the construction of the Jokhang Temple. Move on from the No.24 yard of Barkhor Street, visitors will see an open plaza before the white tower. That pagoda in the past was specialized burn incense for the God of Wealth, and it is blessed with a businessman doing business in white tower around. In the north side of the white tower stands a three-storey building with top layer with the red grass wall. It was the high commissioners lived during the Yongzheng reign of the Qing Dynasty. Since then until the Revolution broke out, nearly 180 years, the Qing government sent 84 high commissioners totally.

In addition to the old families of the local house of the street, more than a dozen generations of Muslims and Nepal nationals are settled in Lhasa today. They run the shops at Barkhor Street offering various kinds of souvenirs to the visitors from all over the world including prayer wheel, Tibetan gowns, knives, a vivid Zhuopu religious utensils and other kinds of daily necessities, as well as a variety of goods from India and Nepal. Travel goods of various ethnic concentrated in the over 1000 meters long Barkhor Street can be described as inexpensive. To taste of the real charm and the lifestyle of Tibet, visit Barkhor Street.