Shopping in Taipei

Shopping in Taipei

Shopping venues in Taipei may include department stores, malls, transit malls, night markets, and shopping districts.

Taipei has many night markets, most famous of which is the Shilin Night Market in the Shilin District of the city. The surrounding streets by Shilin Market get extremely crowded during the evening. Most night markets in Taiwan open around 4 p.m. as students begin returning home from school, crowds reach their peak between 8 and 11 p.m. Businesses continue operating well past midnight and close around 1 to 2 a.m.

Shilin Night Market has since become the largest and most well known night market in Taiwan, especially with regards to food, and is a favorite focal point for Taipei's night life among residents and visitors alike. The night market encompasses two distinct sections sharing a symbiotic relationship: a section formerly housed in the old Shihlin Market building containing mostly food vendors and small eateries; and the surrounding businesses and shops selling other nonfood items.

Due to safety, sanitation, and fire hazard concerns, the old Shilin Market structure was demolished in October 2002 by the Taipei City Government; the food vendors formerly based within the old structure were relocated to a newer temporary structure a few hundred meters away next to the MRT Jiantan Station.

Ximending became the famous theater street in Taipei from 1930s and the prosperity proceeded after the defeat of Japan and is a popular shopping spot for the youth in the city.

Other market areas of note include Taipei Underground Market (with multiple entrances to/from Taipei Railway Station, K-Mall, and Shin Kong Mitsukoshi), Zhongshan Metro Mall, Dihua Street and Guanghua Bazzar.

* Core Pacific City
* Taipei 101
* Taipei Main Station
* Taipei Underground Market
* Shin Kong Mitsukoshi
* Xinyi District
* Asiaworld Shopping Center
* Taipei Metro (East Mall)
* SOGO
* Raohe Street Night Market(see List of shopping malls in Taipei)

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