A new community growing beside the MRT depot, with an old temple tucked between the blocks
The closest neighborhoods in the same city.
The new neighborhood beside Beitun Main Station is still growing — the streets are lined with newly built housing, mixed in with quite a few empty lots still waiting to be developed. Almost none of the old Jiushezhuang settlements remain; only Nanxing Temple and Zhao'an Hall are still standing amid the new blocks. Ridership at the station hasn't caught up yet either: in 2022 it averaged about 829 entries and exits a day, ranking 16th on the Taichung MRT. You won't wait long during commute hours — on weekday mornings from 7 to 9, trains come roughly every 6 minutes. Two stops south is Songzhu Station, where a passage connects the MRT station directly to the TRA station for an easy transfer.
Beitun Main Station, Jiushe Station, and Songzhu Station are all within this neighborhood, so public transit here ranks 2nd among Taichung's 47 neighborhoods. Daily convenience ranks 4th, and for grocery shopping there's a Save & Safe (Beitun) supermarket right in the neighborhood. Head east to the end and you reach the Hanxi River — that river marks the neighborhood's eastern border.
Seeing a doctor is relatively inconvenient here — healthcare ranks 30th. This area is still filling in, so some stretches of street feel empty. The Beitun Depot sits on the north side of Songzhu Road and the west side of the Hanxi River, covering about 20 hectares — this big chunk of land isn't residential.
From the late Qing dynasty into the early Japanese colonial era, this area was called Jiushezhuang, home to the settlements of Dingjiushe, Xiajiushe, and Goubei. After zone expropriation for the Beitun Depot in the 2010s, only Nanxing Temple and Zhao'an Hall still show traces of the original settlements. The Green Line officially began operations on April 25, 2021. At about 20 hectares, the Beitun Depot is the only facility on the Taichung MRT capable of Grade 5 maintenance.
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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