An old street with a riverside walk for sunsets, backed by Tamkang University's hill
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The old street district has two sides: the outer side runs along the Tamsui River as the Golden Riverside Walkway, while the inner side is the traditional old street, lined with traditional pastry shops and general stores. In the evening, if you walk out onto the riverside walkway, you can watch the sunset drop into the sea. The main stretch of the old street is Zhongzheng Road, just over 1 kilometer long, with one end right at Tamsui MRT Station. Head up the hillside and you'll find Chongjian Street — this area was developed early on, and there are still quite a few old wooden and brick houses along it. Right across from the station exit is Yingzhuan Road, where students and locals go to eat; locals call it the Yingzhuan Road Night Market.
Walk to the end of Yingzhuan Road, climb the 132 steps of Kenan Slope, and you'll reach Tamkang University, built up on the hillside — its main gate is within the neighborhood. On the old street side, Fuyou Temple, Qingshuiyan Temple, Tamsui Longshan Temple, and Tamsui Presbyterian Church are all within the neighborhood, and Fort San Domingo to the west is too. Based on street-view photos, this neighborhood ranks 28th out of 100 New Taipei neighborhoods for cleanliness, so the streets look fairly clean.
Transportation is the biggest issue here. About six in ten blocks in this neighborhood are within 800 meters of an MRT or light rail station, but only a third are within 800 meters of Tamsui Station, and it ranks 63rd for public transit and 58th for everyday convenience. The Tamkang University side sits up on the hillside, so getting to and from the MRT station means climbing a slope.
Tamsui's old name was Huwei. Fort San Domingo started out as a fort the Spanish built between 1628 and 1629, which the Dutch rebuilt nearby in the 1640s. Han Chinese at the time called the Dutch "red-haired barbarians," and that's how the fort's Chinese name, Hongmao Cheng, stuck. The old street's Fuyou Temple is dedicated to Mazu, completed in 1796, and is one of Tamsui's four major temples. Starting in 1867, Fort San Domingo served as the British Consulate, continuing in that role until 1972, and it wasn't opened to the public until late 1984. George Leslie Mackay arrived in Tamsui to preach in 1872; the current Tamsui Presbyterian Church building was designed and supervised by his son, George William Mackay, and completed in 1933. The Taiwan Railways Tamsui Line stopped operating in 1988, and Tamsui MRT Station opened on March 28, 1997.
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