Ximending

A bustling pedestrian neighbourhood in Taipei, full of options to shop, eat and party.

Ximending is Taipei’s most popular and crowded neighbourhood. This bustling area will leave you spoilt for choice and you will find yourself spending hours and hours over here. It’s a shopper’s paradise and attracts most of its crowd due to this fact alone. But that’s not all. It has a host of restaurants, bars, pubs and clubs which keep people coming back even at night. The neighbourhood is home to Theatre Street, which has more than 20 theatres and is a great place to enjoy concerts, plays and even street performances. The most popular here is the historic Red House Theatre which was built during the time of the Japanese. You cannot visit Taipei and give this place a miss.