Commuting from a small station beside the rail yard, and stepping off to buy everyday things on Zhongshan Road Section 3
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Life in Nanshulin turns around a small station where only local trains stop. South Shulin Station opened at the end of 2015 as a simple station, and right beside the platform is Taiwan Railway's Shulin Marshalling Yard. Real-estate listings say many people who live here take Taiwan Railway from this station every day to work in Taipei, Banqiao or Tucheng.
Once you step off the train, everyday shopping is along Zhongshan Road Section 3, with chain convenience stores, small hardware shops and a local market. Real-estate listings also describe the residents as mostly working-age families and retirees, along with young families buying their first home.
Dongsheng Market is in Datong Village, and Wikipedia lists it as a privately run market. For school, Datong Elementary School is also in Datong Village.
Within this neighborhood, Datong Elementary School's catchment covers three villages, Taishun, Dongyang and Datong, plus neighborhood units (lin) 9 to 16 of Dongsheng Village and lin 1 of Dongshan Village. The rest of Dongsheng Village belongs to Yulin Elementary School, and lin 2 to 20 of Dongshan Village belong to Shanjia Elementary School, so both villages are split between catchments.
In our street photos, litter and street cleanliness rank 23rd of 100 neighborhoods in New Taipei, and greenery ranks 21st, both in the upper tier.
Real-estate listings say local trains run frequently, it is one stop to Shulin, and Banqiao is about 10 minutes away. Even so, public transit overall ranks 66th, toward the lower end of the middle tier.
Everyday shopping ranks 97th, healthcare 83rd and sidewalks 93rd, all three in the lower tier. Real-estate listings also say a big shop means a 5 to 10-minute drive outside the neighborhood, to the front side of Shulin Station or the Carrefour on Da'an Road.
Real-estate listings mention that the east and south sides border industrial areas, so some lanes get machinery noise and heavy vehicles, and parking in the older lanes is not easy. Dongshan Village is the hillside part of this neighborhood: about 37.6% of Shulin District is slope land above 25 metres, and Dongshan is one of the main villages where it lies.
Wikipedia describes Dongshan, Dongyang and Dongsheng, all inside this neighborhood, as part of Shanzijiao. From the late Qing to the early Japanese era the area was Shanzijiao Zhuang, and in 1920 it became Shanzijiao oaza (a Japanese-era unit).
The station's name was settled by a poll: in 2015 the Shulin District Office asked 1,078 residents, 42.5% backed "Nanshulin" and 30.5% backed "Dongxing", and the station was named Nanshulin, known in English as South Shulin 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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