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Neighborhood · Zhonghe District

Zhonghe Nanshijiao

中和・南勢角

Xingnan Night Market and Myanmar Street, houses built all the way to the foot of the hills

Street Environment 5.5 · Convenience 8.0

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01First impressions

Come out of Nanshijiao Station and walk three minutes and you'll hit Xingnan Night Market, spread across Xinyi Street and Lane 410 of Jingxin Street, selling clothes, snacks, and phone accessories. Huaxin Street runs from No. 1 at the Xingnan Road intersection to No. 99 at the Zhongxiao Street intersection—it's also known as Myanmar Street, and most of the food here is Burmese and Yunnan style. Further south, houses keep going all the way to the foot of the hills.

02What works

For everyday convenience, this neighborhood ranks 11th out of New Taipei's 100 neighborhoods. Xingnan Night Market is mostly clothing and food stalls—practical, everyday shops—so you can still pick up daily necessities at night. Nanshijiao Station is the southern terminus of the Zhonghe-Xinlu Line; head north a few dozen meters past the neighborhood boundary and you'll reach Jingan Station, where you can transfer to the Circular Line.

03Heads-up

The street environment here ranks second from the bottom among New Taipei's 100 neighborhoods, and greenery is also ranked 99th. During Chinese New Year, traffic headed to Hongludi backs up Xingnan Road. Every mid-April, Huaxin Street holds its Water Splashing Festival, and foot traffic from visitors is heavier than usual during those days.

04A bit of history

In the late Qing dynasty, this area was Nanshijiao Zhuang under Baijie Bao. At the end of 1895, brothers Lu Chaodong and Lu Yuandian from Nanshijiao led more than 2,000 villagers in an uprising against the Japanese, intending to take Taipei City; after they failed, Japanese troops burned the villages around Nanshijiao. In 1920, the area was reorganized as Nanshijiao Oaza, divided into smaller units such as Dingnanshijiao and Wainanshijiao—today's Dingnan Village and Wainan Village trace back to these divisions. Starting in 1965, the Taiwan Railways Zhonghe Line ran from Banqiao to here, carrying coal and other freight, before service stopped in 1990. The old Zhonghe rail yard at the terminus was rebuilt into MRT Nanshijiao Station, and the old rail bed became today's Bannan Road and Jieyun Road. Huaxin Street, meanwhile, gradually grew from the 1980s onward into a neighborhood centered on the Burmese Chinese community.

Compiled by TidyMap with AI from public sources · updated 2026-10 · 6 sources

Scores

Compared with the 100 New Taipei neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)

Street Environment5.5No. 99
Cleanliness7.3No. 96
Buildings4.7No. 99
Sidewalks5.8No. 59
Greenery4.3No. 98
Convenience8.0No. 11
Transit7.0No. 13
Everyday shopping8.7No. 10
Healthcare9.0No. 25

What's here

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  • Huaxin Street (Myanmar Street)Huaxin Street, also known as Myanmar Street, hosts a Water Splashing Festival every mid-April.
  • Xingnan Night MarketXingnan Night Market, centred on Xinyi Street and Lane 410 of Jingxin Street, is about a 3-minute walk from Nanshijiao Station.
  • 興南國小Catchment covers 65%
  • 復興國小Nearby・Catchment covers 17%・Shared catchment
  • 景新國小Nearby・Catchment covers 15%・Shared catchment
  • 中和國小Nearby・Shared catchment
  • 中和國中Catchment covers 100%
  • 竹林高中
  • 華夏科技大學
  • 智光商工Nearby
  • 南山中學Nearby
  • 衛生福利部雙和醫院1.0 km away
  • NanshijiaoNanshijiao Station is the southern terminus of the Zhonghe-Xinlu Line, built together with the Zhonghe depot.
  • Jingan

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).

104 blocks · 16 villages · Data version 2026-10-28

How are these measured?

Compared against the New Taipei neighborhoods in this guide; metrics without enough data are not ranked. Shopping counts convenience stores plus the nearer of a supermarket or a traditional market (public and private retail markets); night markets, vendor zones and shopping-street shops are not counted. Transit is rail-first with a lower weight for buses.

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