Thrift stores in Yangon

Yangon, Yangon has 1 thrift and charity shops on the map right now. Every one of the 1 is a charity shop, which tells you something about Yangon: the second-hand scene here runs on donations, and the money stays local. Stock turns over fast in all of them, so the shop that had nothing last month might have your thing this week.

This guide covers every thrift store we could verify in and around Yangon (within about 30 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. The one to know is Pomelo — small scene, but that's half the charm. If a shop's missing from Yangon's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet — the scene is bigger than any single dataset.

The Yangon thrift lineup

1 mapped within about 30 km:

What the map tells us about thrifting in Yangon

1 of the 1 shops list their opening hours, which is unusually helpful for Yangon — thrift stores are notorious for surprise closures. Still, call ahead if you're making a special trip to Yangon; volunteer-run shops sometimes close early on quiet days.

Thrifting tips for Yangon

Thrifting in Yangon goes better with a little prep:

• Inspect electronics in the store at Pomelo. Plug it in before you pay. Most thrift shops sell electronics as-is, and a cheap record player can be an expensive paperweight.
• Bring a tape measure. The perfect sideboard is useless if it won't fit through your door. Tape measure in the bag, every trip.
• Smell the leather. Real leather smells like leather. If it smells like plastic, it is plastic — price it accordingly.
• Test every button and dial. Lamps, radios, kitchen gadgets — try them in the store if there's an outlet handy. As-is means as-is.

Good to know

We searched about 30 km around Yangon — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to for a thrifting run. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new shop in Yangon can take a while to appear. The 1 above are only as current as the community map. A shop that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

Prices at Yangon's thrift stores are set by each shop and change constantly, so we don't list them. As a rough rule, charity shops are the cheapest, independents sit in the middle, and anything labelled vintage costs more everywhere — Yangon included.