Red-brick old station to the elevated new one, the old town of Second Market and Zhonghua Road Night Market
The closest neighborhoods in the same city.
The heart of this neighborhood is Central District, the smallest administrative district in the city at under 1 square kilometer, home to about 18,000 residents as of the end of 2025. It used to be Taichung's central business district, with nearly 50,000 people per square kilometer back in 1986. As the commercial center shifted west in the 1980s, the population declined along with it, and since July 2021, residents aged 65 and over have made up more than 20% of the population. Daily life today still revolves around Taichung Station: right next to the elevated new station building that opened in 2016 stands the red-brick old station house from 1917. Heading west, the Zhonghua Road Night Market draws mostly local residents on weekdays, and the Second Market stays open from morning till night.
Healthcare ranks 7th among Taichung's 47 neighborhoods, and convenience of daily life ranks 10th—you can walk to see a doctor or run your errands. Taking the train is even easier, since TRA Taichung Station sits right within the neighborhood, with about 49,000 people passing through it daily in 2025. If you feel like a stroll, the restored banks of the Lyuchuan River have become a waterfront corridor, which even won a Japan Good Design Award in 2018.
Greenery ranks 42nd, in the lower tier among Taichung's 47 neighborhoods. This is an old part of town with narrow streets and few parking spaces, which was also one of the reasons Central District's commerce declined back in the day.
Taichung Station was established in 1905, and the red-brick station building completed in 1917 was later designated a historic monument. That same year, the Second Market opened for business under the name Shintomicho Market. Miyahara Ophthalmology was built in 1927, and during the Japanese colonial era it was the largest eye clinic in Taichung Prefecture. The Hexagonal Building at the center of the Second Market wasn't added until 1936. After the commercial center shifted west, old spaces like Miyahara Ophthalmology were revitalized by private operators in the 2010s, and the crowds slowly came back. Miyahara Ophthalmology itself was damaged by earthquakes and typhoons, and reopened after renovation in 2012.
Taichung Prefectural Hall, designed by Moriyama Matsunosuke, was upgraded to a national historic monument in 2019. The building itself was completed in August 2026, and the Cultural Affairs Bureau had already moved in to work there by the end of August. The city government put up NT$420 million, and the first floor will become an open exhibition space. The Cultural Heritage Division announced that reservation-based tours would open starting October 15. Further out, construction on the MRT Blue Line began in June 2025; it will run along Taiwan Boulevard to Taichung Station. The project report had targeted completion in 2034, but in July 2026 the city's MRT engineering office told the city council that the overall schedule would slip by two to two and a half years.
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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