Old neighborhood with Baoan Temple and the Confucius Temple, Expo Park open all day to the east
The closest neighborhoods in the same city.
Dalongdong's spiritual centre is Baoan Temple, which enshrines Dadao Gong, the god of medicine. Nearby are the Confucius Temple and Dalong Street Night Market, and daily life in this old neighborhood revolves around these few streets. Head east and you'll find Taipei Expo Park, which functions as an ordinary park on weekdays, open all day, with a cycling path, and sometimes hosts road races.
Taipei Expo Park is made up of three parks—Yuanshan, Meishu, and Xinsheng—and the neighborhood ranks 36th out of Taipei's 73 for greenery, putting it right in the middle of the pack. Dalong Elementary School and Dalong Street Night Market are both within the neighborhood. If you fancy an exhibition, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum sits right alongside Taipei Expo Park.
The MRT station and clinics are a fair distance from most homes, and public transport here ranks 49th out of Taipei's 73 neighborhoods, while everyday convenience ranks 49th. The neighborhood's northern edge runs up to the elevated section of National Highway No. 1, so if you live near the elevated road, factor the traffic noise into your decision.
The place name Dalongdong first appears in Dutch-era records as 'Daronpon'; in Yu Yonghe's 1697 travelogue it was written as 'Balangbeng'. In 1802, settlers from Tong'an opened 44 tile-roofed shops here, and the streets became popularly known as 'Forty-Four Rows' (Sìshísì Kǎn); the place name was then changed to Dalongtong, meaning 'prosperous and flourishing Tong'an,' which is also the origin of the name Datong District. Baoan Temple was first founded in 1742, completed in 1830, won a UNESCO Asia-Pacific Award for Cultural Heritage Conservation in 2003, and was designated a national historic monument in 2018. The original Confucius Temple, once inside the old city walls, was demolished during the Japanese colonial era; a new one wasn't begun in Dalongdong until 1927 and was finished in 1939. From late 2010 into the following spring, Dalongdong hosted the Taipei International Flora Exposition.
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.
Maps show the shops and the sights. What a street is like, you only know by walking it. TidyMap uses AI street imagery analysis and public facility data to turn each area's street environment and everyday convenience into something you can compare. Search an address and look at the street outside first.
How to read it: yellow = poor, blue = good; grey = not enough data
TidyMap rates the street environment and everyday convenience. It does not assess the home itself, safety, noise or actual living experience. Street environment scores use AI assessments of imagery; convenience scores use public facility data.
Content is for personal browsing. Official TidyMap neighborhood cards may be shared as generated; anyone using one commercially is responsible for their own compliance (sharing guidelines). Bulk extraction, APIs and dataset redistribution require a data licence — email us. This site uses Google Analytics and Cloudflare Analytics.