Christchurch shops in layers: rebuilt laneways of Cashel and Welles Street, heritage arcades at New Regent Street, and suburban market halls. Three days covering Canterbury produce, merino knitwear, pounamu and small-batch design.
Saturday-only market (9am–1pm) on the lawns of 1856 Riccarton House with about 60 Canterbury stalls: Barry's Bay cheese, Akaroa salmon, Canterbury cherries in season and Chalet berry ice cream. Cash and card both work.
Two-level covered market hall on Oxford Terrace, open daily 9am–late, with 30-plus food traders plus a butcher, fishmonger and greengrocer. Riverside Lane outside holds craft and clothing stalls on Saturdays.
Restored Gothic Revival stone quadrangles on Worcester Boulevard now house working studios and shops: glassblowing at Lava Glass-style benches, printmakers, jewellers and the Fudge Cottage. Most retail open 10am–5pm.
A single pastel Spanish Mission block of 40 shopfronts from 1932, tram tracks down the middle. Chocolatiers, a magic shop, vinyl and small galleries trade until roughly 5:30pm, then the wine bars take over.
Family-owned department store on the Cashel and Colombo corner since 1854, and the anchor of the rebuilt centre. Strong on New Zealand labels — Zambesi, Kate Sylvester, Karen Walker — plus a ground-floor beauty hall.
Glass-roofed laneway complex on Cashel Street with about 40 tenancies, standing where the Re:START container mall traded from 2011 to 2018. Mid-range international labels alongside Cashel Mall's street-level chains.
A converted 1800s leather tannery on Garlands Road rebuilt as a Victorian-style arcade: roughly 50 boutiques under leadlight and cast iron, covering vintage clothing, homeware, a bookshop and Cassels brewery.
Former engineering workshop off High Street turned into a planted courtyard of independent tenants — skincare, wellness studios, a bakery and bars — with brick walls and steel trusses left exposed.
The South Island's biggest Sunday market, 9am–2pm across the Riccarton Racecourse car parks with 300-plus stalls: second-hand tools, plants, Pacific produce, vintage clothing and heavy bric-a-brac trading.
Port village 15 minutes through the road tunnel, rebuilt after 2011 as a strip of independents: Lyttelton Coffee Company, Wunderbar-adjacent record and book shops, and the Saturday farmers' market on the main street.
Flagship store and garden café for the Christchurch label that pioneered mountainsilk — merino blended with possum fur and silk. Knitwear, base layers and travel pieces, plus factory-adjacent seconds racks.
Seaside village below the Cave Rock headland with a short retail strip: surf shops, a small gallery of Canterbury landscape work and pounamu carving, plus bookshop Sumner Books and a clutch of beachfront cafés.