Dining, antiques and fabric shops cluster around Yongkang Park, with Japanese-era dormitories along Qingtian Street to the south
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Yongkang Street is a shopping area centred on Yongkang Park, selling distinctive food and drink, antiques and crafts, clothing, toys and fabric; Lishui Street and parts of Jinhua Street and Chaozhou Street count as part of it too. Walk south from the shops into Qingtian Street and the lanes still have old Japanese-era dormitory houses and big trees. These houses are what remains of Showa-cho, and most of them are now concentrated around Qingtian Street. A few have found new occupants; No. 10, Lane 8, Qingtian Street, for example, is now a teahouse.
Greenery ranks 17th among Taipei's 73 neighborhoods; between the big trees in the lanes and Daan Forest Park just across Xinsheng South Road, there's no shortage of places to stroll. Daily shopping ranks 17th, so picking up groceries is fairly convenient too. Dongmen Station is the interchange between the Tamsui–Xinyi Line and the Zhonghe–Xinlu Line, and Exit 5 brings you out on Yongkang Street. On Xinsheng South Road to the east is the Taipei Grand Mosque.
Yongkang Street draws a lot of tourists on weekends, so if you live in the shopping area itself, it will be livelier downstairs at weekends and on holidays, and queues often form at the ends of the lanes. Healthcare ranks 35th, so if you need to see doctors regularly, it's worth noting where the clinics and pharmacies are while you're out walking.
In 1927, teachers from Taihoku Higher Commercial School formed a housing cooperative and bought land together in Showa-cho to build their homes. The residential cluster gradually took shape through the 1930s, covering roughly the area from today's Heping East Road Section 1, Qingtian Street, and Wenzhou Street to Yongkang Street. Taihoku Imperial University and Taihoku High School were nearby, and most of the early residents were teachers. The former residence of Ma Tingying at No. 6, Lane 7, Qingtian Street was built in 1931; after the war it became the home of National Taiwan University geology professor Ma Tingying, and today it's open to the public under the name Qingtian 76.
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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