The old Beitun Road quarter, Beitun Market and Taiyuan Station
Old Beitun & Taiyuan ranks 4th for public transport and 6th for everyday convenience, but only 31st for green space.
This neighbourhood is Beitun's old street district, home to the old settlement once known as Sanshizhangli. Beitun Road is Provincial Highway 3, which the older generation calls the Neishan Highway (the "inner mountain highway"), running all the way from Taipei to Pingtung. Beitun Market is on Jinhua North Road, a morning market that's liveliest early in the day. Head east to the railway and you'll find Taiyuan Station, where the trains now run elevated.
It's convenient for transport, ranking 4th out of Taichung's 32 neighbourhoods for public transit, and 6th for everyday convenience. Taiyuan Station is in Beixing Village, within the neighbourhood, and just on the northern border is the MRT Green Line's Siwei Elementary School Station. Both Sanguang Junior High School and Dongguang Elementary School are inside the neighbourhood, and Beitun Library is in Pingtian Village. If you've got kids, you can take them to Sanguang Children's Park or Dongguang Park.
Green space is limited - it ranks 31st out of 32 neighbourhoods for greenery, second from the bottom. Street-view photos rank it 29th for both building conditions and cleanliness. Hanxi River lies to the east and Liuchuan River to the west, so heading in either direction means finding a bridge to cross.
Beitun's old name was Sanshizhangli, because the land reclaimed at the time totalled thirty zhangli, about 150 jia. It grew up along an official road, which today is made up of Ziyou Road, Shuangshi Road, and Beitun Road. In 1920, because it lay north of Dongdadun, the name was changed to Beitun. Back then, the Beitun oaza still included the eastern half of today's Bei District; on the Beitun District side, it roughly covered what are now Beitun, Beijing, Sanguang, Sanhe, Beixing, and Dongguang Villages. Beitun Elementary School first set up a branch classroom on its current site in 1929, and the whole school moved there in 1940. Taiyuan Station opened in 2002; during construction it was temporarily called Beitun Station, and in 2016 it was rebuilt as an elevated station.
Compared with the 32 Taichung neighbourhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
129 blocks · 7 villages · Data version 2026-09-30
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