Around Beitou Station, the day starts at the market, now being rebuilt while its vendors trade from a transitional market
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Beitou District is known for its hot springs, and Mount Datun lies within the district too. But Beitou Park, Taiwan's first hot-spring park, isn't in this neighborhood; here, the day starts at the market. Demolition for the rebuilding of Beitou Market began in September 2026, and its vendors have moved to the Beitou Transitional Market on Huanggang Road, which has 481 stalls. South of the market is the Qiyan land-readjustment area: Qiyan No. 1 Park, Qingjiang Elementary School and Xinqiyan Public Housing all lie west of Gongguan Road, and east of Gongguan Road are the communities on the slopes of Mount Danfeng.
For getting around there's the MRT: Beitou Station is inside the neighborhood and Qiyan Station sits just outside its southwest corner, so public transport ranks 15th among Taipei's 73 neighborhoods. Schools are close too, with Beitou Elementary School and Qingjiang Elementary School both inside the neighborhood. Qiyan No. 1 Park is right in the readjustment area, handy for an evening stroll with the kids.
Everyday shopping ranks only 62nd, one of this neighborhood's weaker points. Demolition of Beitou Market began on 15 September 2026, with completion originally scheduled for 2031, so the area around the market will be a building site for the next few years and grocery shopping means heading to the transitional market.
The name Beitou comes from the site of Neibeitou, a Ketagalan community, and by the middle of the Kangxi era settlers from the Hong and Chen families of Quanzhou had come here to farm. In the Qing dynasty, government offices stood around what is now Gongguan Road, which is how the road got its name. Near Beitou Station, Zhongzheng Street was once called Xiadian, one of the earliest market streets to grow up in Qing-era Beitou. When the Taipei–Tamsui railway was completed in 1901 and Beitou got a station, the street became even busier. The old station closed and was demolished in 1988 to make way for the MRT, and today's MRT Beitou Station replaced it.
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