Taoyuan City Daxi District Daxi Old Street

Taoyuan City Daxi District Daxi Old Street

◎ Attractions：

Located in Taoyuan County, Daxi Old Street is one of the famous Taiwan old streets that used to be a bustling hub for camphor and tea trades. Daxi Old Street is comprised of old stores on Heping Road, Zhongshan Road and Zhongyang Road. The town of Daxi boomed with trades of camphor and tea, and the passage of Daxi Old Street was built as a shortcut for workers to pass through so that they could transport goods without walking a long way.



Daxi was the earliest developed area in Taoyuan. Thanks to small sailboats sailing between Dahan Creek and Tamsui River, Daxi had a thriving trade with China, and its prosperity brought success to many stores and businessmen. During the Japanese occupation period of the Taisho era, Baroque architecture was the popular building style and therefore many stores along Heping Road and Zhongshan Road were built in the Baroque style, but decorated with both Baroque ornamentation and characteristic totems of Min-nan in Southern China. On the facade of some old houses, auspicious Chinese fish and bat totems appear on Greek lintels or Roman columns, constituting a unique feature of Daxi. Because Heping Old Street was developed relatively later, the buildings in this area are better preserved. Specialty shops and food stands on the street always attract many tourists.

Other scenic attractions in the area include Daxi Bridge, Lee Teng-Fang Ancient Residence, Wude Temple, Daxi Wood Art Ecomuseum, etc. Daxi Old Street provides not only traditional Taiwanese toys, but also authentic must-try Taiwanese delicacies, including Daxi dried tofu, moonlight cakes, peanut caramel candies, tofu puddings, salty rice puddings and rice dumplings. When traveling in Taoyuan, be sure to visit Daxi Old Street, where you will experience the true Taiwanese flavor!

Daxi Old Street is filled with diverse stores with the façade designed in a Baroque style that is a perfect blend of the East and West. In the past, the architect would cover and hide their work before completing as they were afraid that their original design would be plagiarized by others.

In the old days, the Tamsui River was navigable all the way inland to Daxi. The dock was where the old Heping Road runs today, and from Ching Dynasty times this has been the town's business commercial area. In addition to the traditional wooden furniture shops, on the Old Street today you can still see the old professions: the making of Daxi's famous dried bean curd, iron mongering, and stone working. The street was formed during the period of Japanese occupation (1895-1945.) The shops are faced in Japanese baroque style with washed stone and are beautifully decorated with intricate carvings of birds, animals, flowers, and plants. The name of the establishment is written above the entrance.

Daxi Old Street is crowded by both local and oversea visitors each day for the rich cultural and traditional style architectures, as well as a wide array of Daxi specialties, such as firm tofu that are made into many flavors, old-time flavor tofu pudding that can dry one’s thirst, and peanut caramel candy that are handmade. There are also a number of stores selling traditional folklore toys and goods that children may learn the life of people back in old days and for the adults to refresh their childhood memories.

Adjacent to the Daxi Old Street is the beautiful Baroque style Daxi Bridge that offers romantic sunset views along with lights in the evening making the bridge a popular Taiwan tourist attraction among visitors of all ages.

While visiting Daxi Old Street, visitors are also recommended to discover other Taoyuan attractions, including Cihu and Cihu Mausoleum for marks of Chiang Kai-Shek, Mt. Lala for rich greeneries and fresh peaches, Shihmen Reservoir for diverse reservoir delicacies and many others for a colorful Taiwan travel.



◎ Traffic：
● Public transportation information：
○ By Bus:
Take Taoyuan Bus (Taoyuan-Daxi route) from the back of Taoyuan Train Station to Daxi

● Car traffic information：
No. 1 National Highway -> Taoyuan Interchange -> No. 4 Provincial Highway -> Daxi -> Heping Road, Zhongshan Road & Zhongyang Road 



No. 1 National Highway -> Pingzhen Interchange -> No. 61 Provincial Highway -> Daxi -> Heping Road, Zhongshan Road & Zhongyang Road



No. 3 National Highway -> Daxi Interchange -> Chiding -> Daxi -> Heping Road, Zhongshan Road & Zhongyang Road




◎ Google Map Navigation：Google Map input「Daxi Old Street」、「大溪老街」



◎ Opening Hours：24/7（Old Street store mostly 18:00 close）

◎ Public Utilities：
● Parking Lot：Existence（Paid）
● Public Toilet：Existence
● Trash Can：Existence
● Convenience Store：No（There are many shops in the old street）

◎ Previews：


Overpass at the entrance






Public toilets in this lane