A morning market by the temple that turns into a night market, and an old settlement with the Li Family Residence, a national monument
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Early morning on Desheng Street means a morning market; by evening it turns into a night market — the same street gets busy twice a day, and it's a pedestrian street packed with foot traffic. The crowds gather around Yonglian Temple, located at the intersection of Desheng Street and Chenggong Road, which is the spiritual center of the Luzhou area. If you get hungry while wandering around, Luzhou's signature dish is qiezai noodles — locally there's a saying that goes "qiezai noodles in the north, danzai noodles in the south". Right in the middle of the old settlement is Zhongzheng Road, with the Luzhou District Office and the National Open University both inside this neighborhood.
Grocery shopping is a strength here — for everyday errands, this neighborhood ranks 17th out of New Taipei's 100 neighborhoods, because the morning market is right at the temple entrance, just a walk away. For the MRT, Sanmin Senior High School Station sits inside the neighborhood, while Luzhou Station is just outside its border.
Public transit only ranks 39th — not every lane is close to an MRT station, so when you're checking out a place, walk the route to the station first. Greenery ranks 89th, so there isn't much green visible on the streets. The temple square is crowded morning and night, so if you live on Desheng Street, you'll need to get used to running into crowds the moment you step outside.
Luzhou was once known as Heshangzhou (written two different ways) and as Luzhou with the character for egret. Starting in 1837, a Guoxing Jiao ritual honoring Koxinga (Zheng Chenggong) has been held here every three years — apart from Koxinga's Shrine, this is the only place in Taiwan where it happens. Yonglian Temple enshrines Guanyin; in 1862 a small thatched-roof shrine was first built, and it wasn't until 1872 that local leaders pooled funds to rebuild it as a tiled temple. The Luzhou Li Family Residence, in Lane 243 of Zhongzheng Road, was completed around 1903, and in 2018 it was designated a national monument. Back then the old residence had been damaged by flooding, and as the family kept growing, the Li brothers pooled their money to expand it into a complex with 9 halls and 56 rooms. It wasn't until 1947 that the name Luzhou was officially adopted. Low-lying Luzhou used to flood every time the tide rose, and it wasn't until projects like the Erchong Floodway were completed that it finally escaped the flooding. The MRT Luzhou Line opened on November 3, 2010.
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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