4 Hidden Gems in Taipei Most People Walk Right Past
4 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Ningxia Night Market
Ningxia Road, Datong District, Taipei
Ningxia Night Market is the locals' night market — a compact, single-street market in the Datong district that lacks Shilin's scale and Raohe's fame but consistently produces the best food of any night market in Taipei.
Taipei Botanical Garden
No. 53, Nanhai Road, Zhongzheng District, Taipei
The Taipei Botanical Garden is a 15-hectare green space in the Zhongzheng district that has been growing tropical and subtropical plants since the Japanese established it as a research garden in 1921.
Treasure Hill Artist Village
No. 2 Tingzhou Rd Sec 3, Linxing, Zhongzheng District, 100050, Taiwan
Treasure Hill is one of Taipei's most unusual cultural spaces — a hillside of self-built houses along the Xindian River that was an illegal settlement from the 1940s (occupied by military veterans and their families who had followed the KMT from mainland China) and has been converted into an artist village where residents and visiting artists live alongside the remaining original inhabitants.
Wistaria Tea House
No. 1 Xinsheng S Rd Sec 3 Ln 16, Longpo, Daan District, 106021, Taiwan
The Wistaria Tea House is the most historically significant tea house in Taipei — a Japanese-era wooden house that served as a secret meeting place for democracy activists and intellectuals during the martial law era (1949-1987) and has been a designated heritage site since 1997.
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