Backstreet Block is a popular neighborhood in central Kunming, featuring international restaurants, popular bars, a nightclub with frequent DJ performances, a cinema and almost anything that one could need in daily life.

It is conveniently located about one kilometer from Wenlin Jie Wenlin Jie and about 1.5 kilometers from Green Lake Park Green Lake. It's also a popular apartment complex for expats and is built along Kunming's old and now defunct narrow gauge railway trackNarrow Gauge Railway.