Khwairamband - also known as Nupi Keithel and Ima Bazaar or "Mothers” Market is large covered market split into two sections on both sides of the Khwairamband Road and has tribal women clad in colorful, traditional attire, selling everything from hand-woven shawls, skirts to fish, lotus, oranges and orange-flavored honey. Women run this market, which is unique in itself. Vegetables, fishes, household utensils and implements and fruits are sold on one side and colourful handloom shawls, phaneks, khudeis, bedsheets on the other. Not far from here, is a street where beautiful cane baskets and furniture are sold.

Other smaller markets are Singjamei, Kongba, Lamlong, Kwakeithel, Heirangkhoithong, Terakeithel, Naoremthong etc. And if you wander in the quaint by lanes around the market, you will get a glimpse of Manipur’s customs and traditions.