A locals' night market with stalls open day and night, beside five-storey apartment blocks from 1964
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Although it's called Nanjichang Night Market, vendors actually do business there all day long, and the customers are mostly local residents—most of the stalls sell food. They serve Taiwanese snacks like ba-wan (Taiwanese meatballs), shaobing (sesame flatbread), stinky tofu, popiah (spring rolls), and sesame oil chicken. CNN has featured the ba-wan here, and the Michelin Guide has also recommended the street food. The night market runs along Lane 307 to Lane 315 of Zhonghua Road Section 2, right next to the Nanjichang Apartments—this set of five-story buildings was the first phase of the Nanjichang public housing project, completed in 1964.
Seeing a doctor is very convenient here—this neighborhood ranks 11th out of Taipei's 73 neighborhoods for healthcare access. For everyday shopping it ranks 14th, with Nanjichang Market, Shuanghe Market, and the night market all within the neighborhood. For kids going to school, Zhongyi Elementary School is right on the north side of the community. If you want to exercise, just head south across Qingnian Road—Youth Park is right across the street, though it's not part of this neighborhood. The southwestern part of the neighborhood stretches along Wanda Road all the way to Shuiyuan Road, wrapping around the park from the west; the whole stretch from Xizang Road to Shuiyuan Road is often called the Youth Park neighborhood.
The buildings here are generally old—this neighborhood ranks last out of 73 for architecture. In 2016, the Nanjichang zhengzhai (reconstructed public housing) was included in the city government's flagship urban renewal program, and a local office was set up nearby to help push the redevelopment forward. Currently there's no MRT station within the neighborhood.
During the Japanese colonial period, this land was first requisitioned as a military training ground, and during World War II it served as a backup airfield on the south side of Taipei—that's how the name Nanjichang (South Airport) came about. In November 1964, the first phase of the Nanjichang public housing project was completed—11 five-story buildings built to resettle households displaced from outside the levee. This large-scale community was seen as a major government urban development project, and became a must-see destination for overseas Chinese returning to visit Taiwan at the time. The apartments' spiral staircases and other design features were the first of their kind in Taipei, making them a model housing complex. Zhongyi Elementary School was completed in 1965. Today's Nanjichang Night Market was designated as a consolidated vendor area by the city government in 1986.
Xia'an Station, part of the first phase of the Wanda Line, sits beneath Xizang Road in front of Zhongyi Elementary School—Xizang Road happens to be the northern boundary of this neighborhood, so the station sits right on the boundary line. On the western boundary, Wanda Road, there's another station, Jiala Station, located between Changtai Street and Dongyuan Street. The Taipei City Department of Rapid Transit Systems' projected completion year is 2027.
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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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