The old market town around Wanhe Temple and the Nantun morning market, with newer blocks along Yongchun Road to the south
Nantun Old Street ranks 3rd for everyday shopping and 11th for architecture, but only 20th for greenery.
Nantun Old Street isn't very long — the triangular block where Wanhe Road meets Nantun Road runs for about 200 metres from end to end. Wanhe Temple sits on Section 1 of Wanhe Road, with Nantun Market and Wenchang Temple both nearby. Along the street you can still find old-style shops — tofu makers, blacksmiths, seed shops, rice-flour shops and Chinese medicine stores.
For everyday shopping, this area ranks 3rd out of Taichung's 32 neighbourhoods, and the morning Nantun Market sits right by the temple, so you don't have to go far to buy groceries. In summer, try some mawi soup — the soil and water here in Nantun happen to be ideal for growing jute, and there's even a Nantun Mawi Culture Museum right on the old street. Nantun Elementary School is also part of this old-street area; to the south, the southern half of Yongding Village is a newer community built through the Yongchun and Xinba self-organised land readjustment projects, and it shares the same Nantun Elementary School catchment area as the old street.
Public transport here ranks 16th; Nantun MRT Station is on the Qiqi side, about 580 metres from the edge of the neighbourhood. Sidewalks and the overall streetscape rank 17th, and greenery ranks 20th — big parks like Nantun Park and Wenxin Forest Park actually sit just outside the neighbourhood boundary. On Dragon Boat Festival, the old street holds its traditional wooden-clog event, and things get a lot livelier than usual that day.
Nantun's old name was Litoudian: during the Kangxi era, settlers came here to farm the land, and by the Yongzheng and Qianlong eras, workshops making farm tools had clustered together, turning this street into a hub for trading agricultural goods. Wanhe Temple was built in 1726, funded jointly by twelve surnamed families living in Litoudian, and completed the following year; it was listed as a Grade 3 historic monument in 1985. Wenchang Temple was built in 1797, and when Litoudian Public School was founded in 1898, classes were first held there — that school eventually became today's Nantun Elementary School. In 1920, following administrative reforms, this area became Nantun Village (Nantun Daizi) under Nantun Township (Nantun Zhuang). The Dragon Boat Festival tradition of "wearing wooden clogs to wake the pangolin" involves stomping loudly in clogs to rouse a legendary pangolin, and it was registered as a Taichung City folk cultural asset in 2008.
Compared with the 32 Taichung neighbourhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
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