Your trip to Taipei won't be complete without a visit to Ximending. It has been called the "Harajuku" of Taipei. The local bookstores sell Japanese magazines, books, CD albums, and clothing , making it a haven for the "Harizu", or Japanese culture
adorers.
Individual vendors gather in the streets as well as the large business
buildings, such as Wannien Department Store and Shizilin Square during
the day, and Wanguo Department Store and Eslite 116 later at night.
Due to the density of young people, Ximending is comparable to Shilin Night Market and the Eastern District to be areas with the highest crime rates. In addition, Ximending is well known for student prostitution.
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How to get to Ximending?
Ximending is connected to blue and green lines of Taipei's Metro Rail Transit. We visited Ximending twice in our Taiwan vacation because just staying at the place feast your eyes to different activities of people around the area, there are also some street shows. There are a lot of cheap but yummy food around Ximending.
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The Ximending Pedestrian Area is named after the administrative division Seimon-chō (西門町), which existed during Japanese rule,
referring to an area outside the west gate of the city. The area of
Seimon-chō included modern-day Chengdu Road (成都路), Xining South Road
(西寧南路), Kunming Street (昆明街), and Kangding Road (康定路). However, today
the Ximending Pedestrian Area not only includes Seimon-chō but also
Wakatake-chō (若竹町) and Shinki-chō (新起町). The historical spelling of
this area was Hsimenting, which is based on the Wade-Giles romanization of Standard Chinese. The use of the character chō (町) is unusual in a Chinese context: it denotes a cho (a part of a ward) in the Japanese municipality system.
The popular restaurants in Ximending are the Modern Toilet and Ay Chung Noodles. You can read it here and here.
