Beneath the old flats on Anxi Road and Guangming Road, noodle stalls and small shops that have been running for years
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Living in Anxi, daily life runs along Anxi Road and Guangming Road. Real-estate listings describe this area as the seam between Sanxia's traditional old town and the Beida Special District, with shops, clinics and traditional snacks along the roads, and a high share of older walk-up flats and mid-rise blocks. Guangming Road and Anxi Road also have noodle stalls, rou yuan (meat-filled dumpling) stands and stinky tofu vendors that have been running for years.
For groceries there is Sanxia Evening Market, in front of Sanxia Bridge beside Aiguo Road, and listings also say the Zhonghua Road shopping area is within walking distance.
For school, Anxi Elementary School is at No. 42 Zhonghua Road; it is named after Anxi in Fujian, because most of the area's Han settlers came from around Yongchun and Anxi. Jieshou Elementary School is in Jieshou Village, and Anxi Junior High School is in Zhongzheng Village.
Put together, the base catchments of the two elementary schools are exactly the four villages in this neighborhood: Anxi Elementary covers Anxi Village and neighborhood units (lin) 17 to 37 of Jiaoxi Village, and Jieshou Elementary covers lin 1 to 16 of Jiaoxi Village plus Jieshou and Zhongzheng Villages.
In our street photos, greenery ranks 64th, everyday shopping 44th and healthcare 51st, all three in the middle range.
The nearest MRT station is Sanxia Station on the Sanying Line, just north of the neighborhood, about 0.6 km in a straight line from Sanxia Evening Market. Public transport overall, though, ranks 72nd, toward the bottom.
Litter and street cleanliness ranks 94th of New Taipei's 100 neighborhoods, sidewalks 80th and buildings 69th, all toward the bottom. Listings also note that this is an older, traditionally developed area: some lanes are narrow, parking is hard to find, and in the older flats you have to be ready to climb stairs with no lift.
Listings mention that there is no large park at the heart of the neighborhood, and that at peak hours the main roads and the area around the National Freeway No. 3 interchange tend to get congested.
The four villages here were really one place under the old place names: in Wikipedia's table of historical place names for Sanxia, "Jiaoxi" covers all four villages, Jiaoxi, Jieshou, Zhongzheng and Anxi. Dong Rixu, a settler from Anxi who came to clear land in 1755, worked across Jiaoxi, Bazhang, Zhongpu and beyond.
In 1988, with National Freeway No. 3 being built and the National Taipei University campus town being developed, Anxi, Zhongzheng, Jieshou and Jiaoxi became new communities with fast-growing populations. To ease the pressure on Anxi Elementary School, the county government planned a new school, Jieshou Elementary.
The Sanying Line is this year's change: trial service began on 30 June and regular fares started on 1 September, at NT$20 to NT$35 a single journey.
There is no station inside the neighborhood; to ride it you walk north, out of the neighborhood, to Sanxia Station or National Taipei University Station.
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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