Worshippers crowd the front of Longshan Temple, and Bopiliao's old shophouses still stand in the heart of old Mengjia
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Longshan Temple usually has people coming to worship or sightsee. Back in a 1994 survey, it already ranked second among attractions that foreign tourists loved to visit. The temple's worship practices are actually quite simple: after the war, the temple switched from the traditional jiao ritual to Buddhist dharma assemblies, and offerings are now mostly kept to vegetarian fruit. Longshan Temple MRT Station is also in this neighborhood. The neighborhood where the temple sits is the core of the old Mengjia town. Walking east to the area around Kangding Road and Guangzhou Street, the row of old shophouses at Bopiliao is still preserved, and the eastern side is now home to the Taipei Heritage and Culture Education Center.
Living here, markets and clinics are mostly within 200 metres, so this neighborhood ranks 2nd out of Taipei's 73 neighborhoods for everyday convenience. Healthcare ranks 6th, so you don't have to travel far to see a doctor.
The streets in the old town are packed close together, with little green space. In street photo assessments, this neighborhood ranks 56th for street environment, one of its weaker scores. If you live near Longshan Temple, you'll often run into crowds around the temple front.
The name Mengjia comes from a dugout canoe: the Pingpu people called boats 'Bangka', which was rendered in Taiwanese as Mengjia; it was only changed to Wanhua during the Japanese colonial era. During the Qing dynasty, this area, together with the walled city of Taipei and Dadaocheng, was known as the Three Market Streets of Taipei; across all of Taiwan, it was grouped with Fucheng and Lukang in the saying 'first Fucheng (Tainan), second Lukang, third Mengjia'. Longshan Temple was initiated by merchants from the Three Towns (Sanyi), breaking ground in 1738 and completed in 1740. The place name Bopiliao already appeared on a land deed from 1763. In the 1853 Dingxia Jiaopin conflict, the Sanyi people used Longshan Temple as their base, which led the Tong'an people to move to Dadaocheng. After the 1860s, the harbour silted up and the commercial centre gradually shifted to Dadaocheng. The gold and silver joss paper industry grew up around Longshan Temple—according to a 1904 Japanese survey, of the roughly sixty incense and joss paper manufacturers in Taipei City, forty-one were in Wanhua. The shophouses on the western side of Bopiliao were restored and completed in 2009.
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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