A new district framed by Taoyuan Arts Center and the Public Library Main Branch, surrounded by high-rises
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The Art and Cultural District is a very new neighborhood: this area used to be farmland, and now it's home to Taoyuan Arts Center, the Taoyuan Public Library Main Branch, and 9 buildings over 100 meters tall. Taoyuan Arts Center, Taoyuan Arts Plaza, and the Main Library are all packed into the same block, right where Nanping Road meets Zhongzheng Road. Taoyuan Arts Center opened in December 2009, and after renovation it has 1,418 seats; the Taoyuan International Comic and Animation Festival is also held here. The Main Library, across the plaza, only officially opened in September 2023.
Heading out from the plaza, the streets are this neighborhood's strong suit — its sidewalks rank #1 among Taoyuan's 11 neighborhoods. Greenery ranks #4 too, so if you want to take a walk, just loop around the plaza between the Arts Center and the Main Library. If you've got a junior high kid at home, Tongde Junior High School is right in the neighborhood on Nanping Road.
The biggest downside is that there's no operating rail station in the neighborhood yet — public transit ranks 9th, so for now you're relying on buses or your own ride. That won't change until the Green Line's Art and Cultural District Station, inside the neighborhood, opens. The real estate industry sometimes uses "Art and Cultural District" loosely to mean the newer neighborhoods of northern Taoyuan, which covers a much bigger area than just around the Arts Center — so if you hear this term while house-hunting, it's best to ask exactly which street they mean.
This area used to be farmland before being developed under an urban planning scheme. "Art and Cultural District" actually covers two areas: in the narrow sense, it's just the plaza where Taoyuan Arts Center and the Main Library sit, 5.16 hectares; in the broad sense, it's the whole urban planning zone developed together, 15.65 hectares. In December 2009, Taoyuan Arts Center opened at No. 1188 Zhongzheng Road. Construction on the new Main Library started in 2018, and it officially opened in September 2023. On March 1, 2026, Taoyuan District established Yiwen Village.
The MRT Green Line was approved by the Executive Yuan in 2016; the Department of Rapid Transit Systems' current schedule has the Kengkou-to-Art and Cultural District section opening first in 2026, with the main line opening in 2030. When the city government announced station names in 2024, G11 Art and Cultural District Station's secondary name was given as "Arts Center".
Compared with the 11 Taoyuan neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
Hospitals with inpatient beds (2020 data), public elementary and junior high schools whose catchment covers this area, high schools and universities within 1 km, stations, parks of 1 ha or more, and large shopping malls and department stores. Many Tokyo junior high students attend private schools, so junior high catchments are only a guide.
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