Groceries and the doctor both on Xikun 2nd Street, and a game at Xibei Park in the evening
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Xikun 2nd Street and Xibei Road are the backbone of daily life here, and real-estate listings describe them as lined with clinics, pharmacies, PX Mart, Simple Mart, banks and all kinds of small eateries. Head for the parks and Xibei Park, Kunlun Park and Xizhou Park join up into a green belt, with a basketball court in Xibei Park.
Xikun is the combined name for Xizhou and the smaller Shalun to its north; the addresses say Banqiao, but the main channel of the Dahan River cuts it off from the rest of Banqiao, and its southwest side presses right up against central Shulin. That is why Wikipedia says daily life here is actually closer to Shulin.
Real-estate listings say the housing here is mostly walk-up flats and mid-rise blocks 25 to 45 years old. Xifu Village alone had about 14,295 residents at the end of 2025.
Everyday shopping ranks 41st out of 100 neighborhoods in New Taipei, in the middle tier. Still, clinics, pharmacies and supermarket chains are all clustered around Xikun 2nd Street, so day-to-day shopping does not mean leaving Xikun.
Shulin Station, just outside this neighborhood, is about a 5- to 10-minute walk away, according to real-estate listings. Shulin Station is a first-class station, and some Eastern Trunk Line trains start or end here.
School is split between two adjacent elementary school catchments: Xizhou Elementary School serves Xizhou, Xifu and Tangchun villages, and Shalun Elementary School serves Xibei, Kunlun and Chenghe villages, and all six villages are in this neighborhood.
There is no station in this neighborhood; the nearest, Shulin Station, is just outside it. Public transit ranks 58th out of 100 neighborhoods in New Taipei, toward the lower end of the middle tier.
Sidewalks rank 56th, also toward the lower end of the middle tier. Real-estate listings also say the roads here are fairly narrow and the blocks are less regular than in the land readjustment zones.
Xizhou was originally a sandbar in the Dahan River, and from the late Qing period into the early Japanese era it was called Xizhou Zhuang and belonged to Baijie Bao. In 1920 it became the Xizhou oaza (a Japanese-era unit) under Banqiao Zhuang in Haishan District; after the war the oaza became a village.
Over time the sandbar joined up with the land, but it stayed cut off from the rest of Banqiao by the main channel of the Dahan River to the east. Bridges became the way in and out: Shalun Bridge, which links to Bao'an Street in Shulin, is only 24.8 metres long, so on the ground it is hard to tell it is a bridge at all. Shulin Overpass also leads to Shulin, and Chenglin Bridge links Shulin, Xizhou and Tucheng.
Station LG14 on Phase 2 of the MRT Wanda-Zhonghe-Shulin Line is in Banqiao District, and real-estate listings place it near the junction of Xicheng Road and Zhonghua Road, on the Banqiao–Shulin border. Work on the Tucheng-to-Shulin section began on 14 October 2022, the contract sets completion for March 2029, and the whole line is expected to open in September 2031.
Compared with the 100 New 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 New Taipei City Education Department's 2026 school-year catchment lists, treating every neighborhood in a village as equal in size; "Shared catchment" marks a free-choice zone where families can pick between two or more schools), high schools and universities within 1 km, stations, parks of 1 ha or more (OpenStreetMap), and large shopping malls and department stores (OpenStreetMap).
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