Richmond Night Market (final River Road season)

Richmond Night Market is in its last season at 8351 River Road, directly west of River Rock Casino and next to Bridgeport Canada Line. Weekends and statutory holidays run through Sunday, September 20, 2026: Fridays and Saturdays 7:00 PM-midnight, regular Sundays 7:00-11:00 PM, with longer holiday-Sunday and statutory-Monday hours on the City of Richmond advisory. General admission is $7; children under 7 and seniors 60+ are free. A Zoom Pass is listed around $40. After 10:00 PM, After Dark admission drops to $5 on the tourism listing. The 2026 theme is One World: more than 500 food offerings, 100-plus retail vendors, live performance, and the 600-foot SkyRush zipline.

Raymond Cheung’s market opened in 2000 and became the Canada Line-era Chinese commercial night that outsiders still miss when they only visit historic Chinatown. City of Richmond figures have put annual visits above one million. Daily Hive and CBC reported in 2026 that the River Road lease is ending after 26 years; organizers have not locked a next site. That final-season fact is the Circuit reason to walk the floor now, not next summer. Vendor registration has been open on richmondnightmarket.com; insurance, health permits, and booth fees are the professional path, not a walk-up card on Friday night.

Bridgeport / River Road is Circuit Vancouver’s Richmond ethnoburb night map, not Downtown Yaletown. Richmond’s Chinese visible-minority share is about 54 percent, the highest of any Canadian municipality. Operators selling food, retail, beauty, or household goods into that corridor use this market the way Coquitlam uses Dumpling and Kimchi Festivals: density, not a badge. The beer-garden instinct is wrong. This is a paid night market with a vendor graph underneath, and it is closing this chapter.

Buy GA at the gate or check the official site for any online pass. Canada Line to Bridgeport is the intended hop; No. 3 Road and Garden City traffic is heavy on market nights. Pets are not allowed. Screenshot live hours before a statutory Monday. If you need a weekday professional room instead, GVBOT’s Citytv breakfast on September 1 is the SME media briefing.

This market is right if you sell into Richmond Chinese household density, or if you want the last River Road season before the lease ends. Kimchi Festival Aug 28-29 is the Coquitlam Korean park weekend. Leave cold pitch decks unless you hold a booth.