The eastern half of Tiaotong, lanes full of Japanese izakayas and small-unit older apartment blocks
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The southern part of the neighborhood—the lanes between Shimin Boulevard and Nanjing East Road, east of Linsen North Road—is the eastern half of Tiaotong. During the Japanese era this area was called Taisho-cho, and the east-west streets were numbered, from south to north, First Tong through Tenth Tong; Tenth Tong was later widened into Nanjing East Road. The eastern ends of Third Tong through Ninth Tong are all within the neighborhood, and Fourth Tong is Chang'an East Road. In the 1970s and 80s Japanese trading companies sent large numbers of staff to Taiwan, and Japanese restaurants and izakayas opened up to serve them; you'll still find plenty in the lanes today. The western half of Tiaotong, across Linsen North Road, belongs to the Zhongshan Station–Chifeng Street neighborhood. Most homes here are small-unit pre-owned apartment buildings.
Everything small-unit residents need for daily life is nearby: supermarkets are plentiful, and there are laundromats, tailors, and hardware stores too. For everyday shopping, this neighborhood ranks 11th out of Taipei's 73 neighborhoods, and 15th for healthcare, so you never have to go far to shop or see a doctor. Linsen Park is within the neighborhood, and still has the two torii gates, one large and one small, left from the Japanese-era public cemetery. Across Linsen North Road, just outside the neighborhood, is Kangle Park, which has a water-mist plaza for families and a water-lily fountain. If you're driving out of town, the Xinsheng Elevated Road is right on the neighborhood's eastern edge.
There's no MRT station within the neighborhood. The Orange Line's Zhongshan Elementary School Station is about 0.3 km outside the northern border, and the Red Line's Zhongshan Station is about 0.6 km from Linsen Park. The lanes are narrow, one-way streets are common, and parking is scarce; lanes with lots of restaurants often have cooking fumes. This neighborhood is also quite narrow: it's bounded by Linsen North Road to the west and Xinsheng North Road to the east, about 560 meters across at its widest, and about 1.6 km from north to south. The various li within the neighborhood belong to the school districts of Chang'an, Jilin, and Zhongshan elementary schools, but all three schools are outside the neighborhood. Greenery is a weak point, ranking 57th.
The area around Linsen Park was called Sanbanqiao during the Japanese era, and was designated a public cemetery in 1900. Akashi Motojiro, the seventh Governor-General of Taiwan, died in 1919 and was buried here according to his will; the large torii gate was built in 1920 for his grave. At the same time, the district south of Nanjing East Road and between Xinsheng North Road and Shimin Boulevard was called Taisho-cho, mainly housing for Japanese officials. After the war, this area became home to veterans and migrants from southern Taiwan seeking work, with thousands of illegally built bungalows and the budget Kangle Market. By the end of 1997, the city government completed the demolition and relocation along with basic landscaping; the park's current appearance dates from the 2002–2003 beautification project.
Compared with the 73 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 2026 school-year village/neighborhood catchment table, treating every neighborhood in a village as equal in size; "Shared catchment" means families there can choose between two or more schools), high schools and universities within 1 km, stations, parks of 1 ha or more, and large shopping malls and department stores.
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