A night market, the City God Temple and an old winery, packed into the same old South District streets
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When the Third Public Market closes for the day, the food stalls on Zhongxiao Road open up; this street night market dates back to the Japanese colonial era and is known above all for its food. The night market runs right between people's homes: Chenghuang, Deyi, Changchun, Changrong and Xinrong villages had about 18,000 residents in total at the end of 2020. Northwest of the night market is the former Taichung Winery, whose old factory buildings are now the Ministry of Culture's Cultural Heritage Park. In a lane off Hezuo Street, beside the night market, is the Taichung City God Temple; the City God's birthday falls on the 15th day of the sixth lunar month, and worshippers start arriving to offer incense the day before.
Everyday shopping ranks 9th of Taichung's 47 neighborhoods and healthcare 6th. For daytime groceries there is the Third Public Market, on Taichung Road at the eastern edge of the neighborhood. The train is close too: Wuquan Station is about 215 meters outside the neighborhood and Taichung Station about 500 meters.
Street scenery is not this old district's strength: greenery ranks 44th of Taichung's 47 neighborhoods and buildings 42nd. The population is slowly shrinking as well. From 2012 to 2020, Changchun Village fell from 2,616 to 2,171 people and Changrong Village from 3,430 to 2,973.
The Taichung City God Temple began as the Taiwan Prefecture City God Temple, built in 1889 and torn down in the Japanese colonial era. In 1914 a Japanese businessman opened a winery here, which later became the Taichung Winery. The City God Temple was rebuilt on its current site from 1919, and the City God was installed with an incense ceremony in 1924. In 1930 the Lin Family Ancestral Shrine, moved from Dali to its current site on Guoguang Road, was completed; it was listed as a third-class historic site in 1985. After the war this area was a center of machinery and ironworking, and around Aiguo Street and Youheng Street in Changrong Village there are still auto parts workshops and material suppliers. The winery moved out in 1998, and in 2018 the old factory grounds were renamed the Ministry of Culture's Cultural Heritage Park.
Compared with the 47 Taichung neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
NHI-contracted hospitals, public elementary and junior high schools whose catchment covers this area (estimated from the Taichung City Education Bureau's catchment tables for the 2023 (elementary) and 2022 (junior high) school years, the latest the city has published as open data, treating every neighborhood in a village as equal in size), high schools and universities inside or within 1 km, stations, parks of 1 ha or more (OpenStreetMap), and large shopping malls and department stores (OpenStreetMap).
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