A residential strip by the airport, with the Hanmin Road night market and parks
The closest neighborhoods in the same city.
Xiaogang Centre is a residential strip next to the airport, about 2.2 kilometers long and 0.5 kilometers wide—with the airport to the north, the Linhai Industrial Park to the south, a steel mill to the east, and the port area to the west. It's densely packed: Hongliang Village, the most densely populated village in all of Xiaogang District, sits right in this neighborhood, with about 39,600 people per square kilometer. The liveliest streets are Hanmin Road and Jinfu Road, and the Xiaogang Hanmin Night Market is just off Xuefu Road, with Zhongshan Junior High School bordering the west side.
For everyday shopping, this neighborhood ranks 3rd among Kaohsiung's 13 neighborhoods, and most blocks have a market within 300 meters. If you want to take a walk, both Hanmin Park and Kaohsiung Park are right here; the Kaohsiung Social Education Center on Xuefu Road was built in 1995 and has an outdoor theater, a camping center, and a skating rink. For kids going to school, this neighborhood is made up of exactly the two adjacent school zones of Erling Elementary School and Hanmin Elementary School. Siaogang Station is at the southern end of the Red Line, so you can get downtown in just one ride.
Six villages in this neighborhood fall within Kaohsiung Airport's Category 1 aircraft noise zone, and Hongliang Village is Category 2—when you're checking out a place, it's worth timing your visit for when planes are actually flying overhead. Public transportation here ranks last among the 13 neighborhoods, so if you live on the end farther from Siaogang Station, you'll want to budget extra commuting time. The names can be misleading—Kaohsiung Municipal Siaogang Hospital and the Xiaogang District Office are actually both outside this neighborhood.
Xiaogang's old name was Gangzaiqian—"qian" means "edge" in Taiwanese. In 1920, Gangzaiqian, Dalinpu, and Kongdizi were merged into a single township, originally meant to be called Gangzizhuang, but it was later renamed Xiaogang Zhuang. When Kaohsiung City became a special municipality in 1979, Xiaogang Township was merged in as a city district. The main commercial street later shifted from Xiaogang Road to the Erling Land Readjustment Area, and Hanmin Road and Jinfu Road became the busiest stretch. In March 2008, the Red Line extended to Siaogang Station, becoming the main rail connection to downtown for this area.
The Siaogang–Linyuan MRT Line was approved by the Executive Yuan in September 2022, extending south from the reserved tunnel at the Red Line's Siaogang Station, with 7 stations planned along the route. According to the MRT Engineering Bureau's annual report, the revised plan has pushed the timeline back to 2034.
Compared with the 13 Kaohsiung neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
Hospitals with inpatient beds (2020 data), public elementary and junior high schools whose catchment covers this area, high schools and universities within 1 km, stations, parks of 1 ha or more, and large shopping malls and department stores. Many Tokyo junior high students attend private schools, so junior high catchments are only a guide.
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