A commuter district between two TRA stations, with office towers to the south
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This neighborhood sits between two TRA stations - Xizhi Station and Xike Station - which are just over a kilometer apart, with both stations inside the neighborhood. Ridership is heavy at both: in 2025, Xizhi Station averaged about 22,000 riders a day, ranking 15th on the whole TRA network. Xike Station sees even more, about 24,000 riders a day, ranking 14th. South of Xike Station there's a connector road leading to Xintai 5th Road, and walking that way takes you to office buildings like the Far Eastern World Center. The exit for the north station building sits at the intersection of Lianxing Street and Datong Road Section 2.
Commuting by TRA is really convenient here - public transit ranks 11th among New Taipei's 100 neighborhoods. The district office and Xizhi Elementary School are both within the neighborhood, so errands and school drop-offs are just a walk away; the old Zhongshun Temple is here too. The Zhongzheng Public Retail Market, for groceries, has over 50 years of history and is currently being rebuilt on the same site, with the city government aiming to finish and reopen it by the end of 2026. Judging from street-view photos, the streets look pretty clean, ranking 30th - in the upper tier.
Sidewalks are a weak spot here, ranking 54th, so some stretches need extra caution when walking. Xike Station has two station buildings sitting at opposite ends of the platform, with the whole station spanning 650 meters - so getting to or from the platform means walking about 100 meters through a long corridor. Xizhi used to flood often, and the damage from Typhoon Nari in 2001 was severe. After the Yuanshanzi Diversion Tunnel was completed, typhoon flooding dropped a lot, but it's still worth asking about a building's history with flooding when you're checking it out. Construction has already started on the Xidong MRT line, so expect some construction disruption around Datong Road until it's finished.
This area used to be called Shuifanjiao - when the tide came in on the Keelung River, the seawater would rise right up to this spot. The railway from Taipei to Shuifanjiao was completed in 1889, and a station building went up here at the same time - the predecessor of today's Xizhi Station. In 1920, under Japanese colonial rule, the place name was changed to "Xizhi". Xike Station came much later, opening at the end of 2007; even though "ke" (as in "tech") is in the name, there's no science park called Xike nearby - what you'll find instead is the privately built Oriental Science Park and its office buildings.
Construction on the Xidong MRT line began in March 2025; it'll run 5.56 kilometers with 6 stations, with completion expected by 2032. It connects to TRA's Xike Station at Station SB14, and its terminus is set at the Xizhi District Office. The Keelung MRT was approved by the Executive Yuan in January 2024, and will intersect with the Xidong MRT line at Station SB15, with completion expected by 2033.
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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