Old market street grown along the official road, morning market and elevated Taiyuan Station
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This is an old neighborhood in Beitun, originally called Sanshizhangli, that grew up along the old official road. Today's Beitun Road is Provincial Highway 3, popularly known as the Neishan Highway. In the morning, people head to Beitun Market on Jinhua North Road to buy groceries — it's a morning market, and Beitun Elementary School is about 110 meters away. Walking less than 1 km east from the market gets you to Taiyuan Station, where the rail line has now been elevated; in 2025, it saw an average of about 4,800 boardings and alightings per day. The northern edge of the neighborhood sits right up against Sihwei Elementary School Station on the MRT Green Line.
Both the train and the MRT are within walking distance, putting public transit here at 4th among Taichung's 47 neighborhoods. Everyday convenience also ranks 6th — groceries and schools are all within walking distance in the neighborhood. Both Sanguang Junior High School and Dongguang Elementary School are within the neighborhood, and Beitun Library is on Dalian Road Section 3.
Green space is limited, ranking 43rd for greenery. If you've got kids, you can take them to Sanguang Toy Park or Dongguang Park within the neighborhood. Buildings in street-view photos also rank toward the lower end, at 38th. The neighborhood is bordered by Hanxi River to the east and Liuchuan River to the west, so heading either direction means finding a bridge to cross.
Beitun's old name was Sanshizhangli, because the land reclaimed back then covered thirty zhangli (plow units), roughly 150 jia. In 1920, since it lay north of Dongdadun, the name was changed to Beitun. At that time, the Beitun oaza also included part of what is now eastern North District — on the Beitun District side, it roughly corresponds to today's Beitun, Beijing, Sanguang, Sanhe, Beixing, and Dongguang villages. Beitun Elementary School first set up a branch classroom on its current site in 1929, and the whole school moved there in 1940. Taiyuan Station opened in 2002 — during construction it was temporarily called Beitun Station — and switched to an elevated station in 2016.
Compared with the 47 Taichung neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
NHI-contracted hospitals, public elementary and junior high schools whose catchment covers this area (estimated from the Taichung City Education Bureau's catchment tables for the 2023 (elementary) and 2022 (junior high) school years, the latest the city has published as open data, treating every neighborhood in a village as equal in size), high schools and universities inside or within 1 km, stations, parks of 1 ha or more (OpenStreetMap), and large shopping malls and department stores (OpenStreetMap).
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