Life turns around a few short streets, and a walk to Jinbaoli Street brings you to a Mazu temple more than 200 years old
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Daily life in central Jinshan turns around a few short streets. Zhongshan Road is the spine: Jinshan Elementary School is on it, and Jinshan District Office is on Zhongzheng Road next door. Walk east along Zhongshan Road to Jinbaoli Street and you reach Cihu Temple, the Mazu temple completed in 1809 and the religious heart of Jinshan.
The place to buy food has moved. Jinshan First Market, at No. 188 Zhongshan Road, opened in 1978 and is to be demolished and rebuilt; in March 2026 the vendors moved to an interim market on Ren'ai Road, about 350 metres away. The streets around the interim market are residential.
Jinshan's most populous village is Jinmei Village, with 5,427 residents. Jinshan Elementary School, Jinmei Elementary School and Jinshan Senior High School are all inside this neighborhood.
Jinshan Elementary takes Datong, Heping, Fengyu and Huanggang Villages in the neighborhood, and parts of Jinmei and Meitian Villages; Jinmei Elementary takes most of the neighborhood units (lin) of Jinmei Village and lin 24 and 25 of Meitian Village.
In our street photos, litter and street cleanliness ranks 51st of New Taipei's 100 neighborhoods and greenery 42nd, both in the middle range.
For long-term living, the weak points here are that getting around by public transport and seeing a doctor are both inconvenient. Overall it ranks 97th, toward the bottom. The six villages average about 47 people per hectare; the densest, Jinmei Village, has about 157, and Huanggang Village only about 14.
Public transport ranks third from the bottom, and getting in and out depends on the Provincial Highway 2 coast road and the Yangjin Highway. Healthcare ranks 92nd, toward the bottom; the district's National Taiwan University Hospital Jinshan Branch is outside the neighborhood, beside the Yangjin Highway in Wuhu Village.
Sidewalks rank 94th, also toward the bottom. Jinshan gets more than 3,000 mm of rain a year, and the winter monsoon winds are strong.
Jinbaoli Old Street was the first area to be settled on the North Coast around Keelung, with written records going back to land contracts from the Qianlong reign.
In the 14th year of the Jiaqing reign (1809) a Mazu temple was completed on the street, first named Tianhou Temple and later renamed Cihu Temple. The Keelung tsunami of 1867 destroyed the temple completely; local gentry spent six years rebuilding it, and in June 2019 it was listed as a historic building.
The name Jinshan came much later than the temple: the area was only renamed Jinshan in 1920, when Jinshan Zhuang was created.
Jinshan First Market was first meant to be rebuilt as a government-led urban renewal project, with a call for investors in autumn 2024. Both calls drew no bids, so the city government switched to rebuilding it itself.
When the interim market opened, the mayor said the new market should be finished by the end of 2028, when the vendors will move back to the original site.
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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