Breakfast picked along Mingzhi Road, groceries from the public market, a stroll round Cixiu Park
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If you live in Taishan's old town, your day usually starts on Section 1 of Mingzhi Road. The property site 5168 says there's plenty of choice of breakfast shops here, the public market is where you buy fresh produce and cooked food, and chain stores, banks and clinics are all within walking distance.
From the District Office at No. 322, Section 1, Mingzhi Road, Taishan Public Market is less than 500 metres to the south-east. To the south-west is Cixiu Park, which the site lists as a good place for a stroll; both are inside the neighborhood.
The site also says most residents are married couples with children. Housing is mainly flats and blocks more than 30 years old, with few new developments; property news reports also note that old townhouses and flats line Mingzhi Road.
For school, three base catchments overlap in the neighborhood: Yixue Elementary School covers Yiren and Quanxing, Taishan Elementary School covers Shanjiao, Futai and Fengshu, and Tongrong Elementary School covers Yixue Village; Tongxing Village is a shared catchment of all three schools.
For exercise, Taishan Civil Sports Center at No. 167, Quanxing Road opened in 2015. From our street-view photos, rubbish and street cleanliness rank 24th out of 100 neighborhoods in New Taipei, and buildings rank 29th, both near the top.
Although Taishan Station (A5) on the Airport MRT is right inside the neighborhood in Yiren Village, public transport still ranks 79th, toward the bottom. Everyday shopping ranks 60th, toward the lower end of the middle tier.
Real-estate listings say Mingzhi Road and Taishan Road were developed early, so they're narrow, they jam easily at peak times, and parking is hard to find. There are no big shopping centres or cinemas in the area and few distinctive places for lunch or dinner, so people often go to Xinzhuang or Linkou to eat.
The site also notes there are scattered factory buildings in the area.
Taishan was once called Shanjiao, "foot of the hill", because it sits below the Linkou Plateau. After the war, two temples, Dingtaishan Yan and Xiataishan Yan, drew so many worshippers that the place was renamed Taishan.
Xiataishan Yan is on Section 1 of Mingzhi Road, inside the neighborhood; the old name Shanjiao also lives on in Shanjiao Village in the same area. On 1 March 1950 Taishan was split off from Xinzhuang Town as Taishan Township, and on 25 December 2010 it became Taishan District.
Yixue Village takes its name from Mingzhi Academy: Hu Zhuoyou donated buildings and farmland to set up a charity school, which was later re-established as an academy. In 1895 the academy was renamed Xinzhuang Shanjiao Charity School, which is how Taishan Township came to have a "Yixue Village"; the academy itself is on Section 2 of Mingzhi Road, outside the neighborhood.
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