Early morning crowds at Shuinan Market, head northwest to the Economic and Trade Park still under construction
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Early in the morning, stalls line the street between Dapeng Elementary School and Zhongqing Road—this is Shuinan Market, one of northern Taichung's main traditional markets. It sells fresh produce, meat and seafood, and grains, running until around noon, with snack stalls opening in the afternoon and evening. The market sits within the old Xiashibei community, which the real estate market calls the "Old Shuinan District". Walk a few blocks northwest and you'll enter the Shuinan Economic and Trade Park, developed on the site of the former Shuinan Airport.
On the Economic and Trade Park side, China Medical University's Shuinan Campus opened in 2020, and the visitor center for Central Park is also within the neighborhood, giving you access to the 67-hectare park. About 500 meters outside the neighborhood, at the north end of the park, is the Taichung Green Museumbrary, combining a library and an art museum, which officially opened in December 2025. The Shuinan Transfer Station, just outside the neighborhood, opened in August 2026, with intercity buses stopping there from the end of September. The MRT Green Line's Wenxin Zhongqing Station sits at the neighborhood's southeast corner. Public transportation ranks 14th and daily convenience ranks 23rd, in the upper middle among the 47 neighborhoods.
Shuinan Market is lively, but the neighborhood as a whole ranks only 39th for everyday shopping and 38th for sidewalks, both near the bottom of the 47 neighborhoods. The northern half of the Economic and Trade Park is still under phased construction. If you live near Zhongqing Road or Dapeng Road, the market tends to get crowded during business hours, so leave extra time when heading out in the morning.
The old settlement to the south is called Xiashibei; it was Xiashibei Village in the late Qing dynasty, and was reorganized as an oaza (administrative district) in 1920. According to local lore, when Han settlers moved into Xitun in the early days, the authorities erected stone markers in this area to mark boundaries. Xiashibei stretched roughly from today's Gansu Road Section 2 to Shuinan Market, and the market area itself is also known as "Xinjie". To the north, Shuinan Airport was an army airfield during the Japanese colonial era, named after Shuinan, about 1 kilometer to the east. Civilian flights moved to Qingquangang in March 2004, and most of the land was transferred to the city government by the end of 2007 and planned as the Economic and Trade Park. In 2020, China Medical University's Shuinan Campus opened, and Central Park was fully opened to the public.
China Medical University is building an art museum on its Shuinan Campus within the neighborhood, designed by architect Frank Gehry, with groundbreaking on May 3, 2025. The city government's announced timeline calls for completion and opening in 2028.
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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