The MRT station on Jixian Road connects to a shopping centre, and Sanchong is just across the road
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The whole Luzhou district has about 196,000 people packed into 7.4 square kilometers, or over 26,000 people per square kilometer. This neighborhood spreads out along Jixian Road, the widest street in Luzhou, lined with schools, parks, and quite a few hotels. St. Ignatius High School Station sits right at the intersection of Jixian Road and Zhongshan Road Section 1—Exit 2 connects straight to Xuhui Plaza, which has a shopping mall and hotel upstairs. Walking northeast a short way from the station along Jixian Road, the even-numbered addresses on Yong'an North Road Section 2 are still in Luzhou, while the odd-numbered addresses across the street are already in Sanchong.
Being this close to Sanchong makes getting into Taipei City easy too: by car or scooter, you just take Jixian Road onto Chongyang Bridge and you're straight into Shilin. By MRT, the station right outside is on the Zhonghe-Xinlu Line; one stop northwest is Sanmin Senior High School Station, which is already outside this neighborhood. Xuhui Plaza right at the station rounds out the shopping and errands here, and overall convenience ranks 25th out of New Taipei's 100 neighborhoods—in the upper tier.
The weak point of this neighborhood is streetscape. In street-view photo rankings, it comes in 92nd for cleanliness and 96th for architecture, near the bottom of New Taipei's 100 neighborhoods. There's also construction coming next to the station: a new exit is planned between Jixian Road and Lane 8 of Yong'an North Road Section 2, though when it was announced in 2022, the land was still being acquired.
Luzhou used to be called Heshangzhou (written either as 'river-top island' or 'monk's island') or Luzhou (written with the character for egret)—originally a sandbar deposited by the Dakekan River. It wasn't renamed to its current form, using the character for reed, until 1947. In its early days the land was low-lying with no flood defenses, so the Tamsui River would flood it easily at high tide; it wasn't until projects like the Erchong Floodway were completed that the area escaped the flooding problem. St. Ignatius High School traces its roots to Shanghai, founded by the Jesuits in 1850, and was re-established in Taiwan by alumni in 1963. The MRT Luzhou Line opened on November 3, 2010, and the station is named after this school, which sits just south of it—St. Ignatius High School Station began operating that same day.
Construction on the Northern Section of the Circular Line began in 2022, with completion targeted for 2031; once it's done, you'll be able to ride straight from Xindian to Luzhou without transferring. St. Ignatius High School Station will become a transfer station, and its exits will increase from two to five.
Compared with the 100 New Taipei neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
NHI-contracted hospitals, public elementary and junior high schools whose catchment covers this area (estimated from the New Taipei City Education Department's 2026 school-year catchment lists, treating every neighborhood in a village as equal in size; "Shared catchment" marks a free-choice zone where families can pick between two or more schools), high schools and universities within 1 km, stations, parks of 1 ha or more (OpenStreetMap), and large shopping malls and department stores (OpenStreetMap).
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