A produce market by day and food stalls after dark: the hundreds of stalls of Jingmei Night Market are right here
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By day Jingmei Night Market is a traditional market selling household goods, fruit and vegetables, meat and fish, and flowers; after dark it turns into food stalls, several hundred stalls in all. Jingmei Street, where it runs, used to be called Jianwei Street, and the stretch in front of Jiying Temple is known as the temple-front section; once the crowds build up in the evening, the whole street livens up. Getting there is easy, with MRT Jingmei Station within 350 metres.
Since the night market is a produce market by day, everyday grocery shopping is a walk away. For everyday convenience the neighborhood ranks 25th out of Taipei's 73, and 23rd for medical care, both in the upper-middle range. Xikou Elementary School is inside the neighborhood. The neighborhood stops at the Jingmei River to the south; across the river is New Taipei City.
If you live near Jingmei Street, be ready for crowds and voices at the end of your lane after dark. In street photos, cleanliness ranks 61st out of the 73 neighborhoods, one of this neighborhood's weaker points. The west side runs along the Shuiyuan Expressway, so if you are on that side, factor in the traffic noise.
The name Jingmei comes from "Jianwei", the tail end of the Liugong Canal's great wooden flume; the present spelling was only fixed in 1950, when Jingmei Town was established. Jingmei Street, home to the night market, used to be called Jianwei Street. Jiying Temple was built in 1860 by settlers from Anxi just south of today's Jingmei Elementary School, then moved and rebuilt on its current site in 1867; its main deity is Baoyi Zunwang. Jingmei joined Taipei City as Jingmei District in 1968, and in 1990 it merged with Muzha to form Wenshan District.
Compared with the 73 Taipei neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
NHI-contracted hospitals, public elementary and junior high schools whose catchment covers this area (estimated from the 2026 school-year village/neighborhood catchment table, treating every neighborhood in a village as equal in size; "Shared catchment" means families there can choose between two or more schools), high schools and universities within 1 km, stations, parks of 1 ha or more, and large shopping malls and department stores.
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