A new city centre between City Hall, the National Taichung Theater and two big parks
The closest neighborhoods in the same city.
On the north side of the 7th Redevelopment Zone are Taichung City Hall, the City Council, and the National Taichung Theater, while heading south and west it gradually turns into a residential area with wide roads, dense tree-lined streets, and large city blocks. For an evening outing, you don't need to go far: Maple Garden is a park of about 3 hectares that doubles as flood retention. Wenxin Forest Park is even bigger, at 8.88 hectares, and its Yuanman Outdoor Theater can seat more than ten thousand people—it has hosted the Central Taiwan Lantern Festival. Along Wenxin Road on the east side, three MRT Green Line stations link the whole neighborhood together.
This neighborhood ranks 1st out of Taichung's 47 neighborhoods for street environment. Taichung City Hall Station, Shui-an Temple Station, and Wenxin Forest Park Station are all within the neighborhood, and it ranks 15th for public transit—you can catch a ride without leaving the 7th Redevelopment Zone. The National Taichung Theater is on Huilai Road Section 2, about 500 meters from Maple Garden, so you can catch a show and take an evening stroll on the same trip.
You'll need to walk a bit further for daily necessities, since supermarkets and pharmacies are farther away—it ranks 33rd for everyday shopping and 33rd for healthcare. The blocks here are large, so places that look close on a map often take a roundabout walk to reach.
Land readjustment in the 7th Redevelopment Zone ran from February 1990 to November 1992; before that, about 90 percent of the area was designated farmland. When Shuinan Airport relocated in 2004, the building height restrictions were lifted, and department stores and hotels gradually began moving in. The Huilai Site, uncovered during construction at a department store site, has its earliest cultural layer dating back about 4,500 years, and it was designated a municipal heritage site in January 2010. On December 25 of that same year, the county and city merged, and the City Hall building on Taiwan Boulevard opened that same day. Maple Garden was originally meant to be a convention center, but after the contractor defaulted, it was turned into a park that also serves as flood retention, opening in November 2012. The National Taichung Theater, designed by Toyo Ito, officially opened on September 30, 2016.
The MRT Blue Line will run along Taiwan Boulevard past City Hall, crossing the Green Line to form a cross-shaped network. The Blue Line was approved by the Executive Yuan in January 2024, with a groundbreaking ceremony held in June 2025; an official completion date has not yet been announced.
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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