Live by the first stop of the Ankeng Light Rail, where the trains from the hillside depot start their run
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Shuangcheng is the first station on the Ankeng Light Rail: full-route trains start here and run all the way to Shisizhang. The station is at ground level, and beyond it the tracks disappear into a tunnel in the hillside that leads to the Ankeng Depot.
Life in this neighborhood revolves around Shuangcheng Elementary School. The school is at No. 322, Section 3, Ankang Road, opposite the Central Engraving and Printing Plant; Shuangcheng, Rixing and Xiangpo villages make up exactly its base catchment. In the 2023–24 school year it had 518 pupils.
Writing about Ankeng as a whole, real-estate listings describe it as a classic hill-town landscape with relatively fresh air.
From our street-view photos, greenery ranks 15th out of 100 neighborhoods in New Taipei, near the top, and it's this neighborhood's best-ranked category.
The light rail runs from 6 a.m. to midnight, and full-route trains go straight from Shuangcheng to Shisizhang, where the line meets the Circular Line. Real-estate listings say the light rail mainly serves people living around stations K01 to K04.
The biggest price of living here long-term is everyday convenience: everyday shopping ranks last, healthcare second from the bottom and convenience 97th, all toward the bottom. Sidewalks also rank last.
Real-estate listings say many of Ankeng's large developments are built on hillsides, and residents complain about the climbs. Ankang Road is busy at peak times, a long-standing bottleneck, and winters are damper and colder; getting into Taipei means changing to the Circular Line at Shisizhang, which makes the commute longer.
In 1964 Ankeng Elementary School opened a Shuangcheng branch class here; in 1968 it was approved to become Taipei County Shuangcheng Elementary School.
Work on the Ankeng Light Rail began in 2016 and it opened in February 2023, with Shuangcheng Station as the start of the line. The depot was built on the hillside beyond Shuangcheng Station, linked to the station by a single-bore, double-track tunnel.
From July 2024, the New Taipei City Department of Rapid Transit Systems ran a trial passenger service from the boarding platform at the Ankeng Depot, with one train to Shisizhang at 6:28 and another at 7:16 every weekday morning; the trial was later extended to the end of December.
During the trial, the two daily trains carried about 50 passengers a day in total on average; the department said the results would feed into its assessment of whether to upgrade the platform to a regular 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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