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Wu Fen Pu CLOTHING
(Wǔ Fēn Pǔ; noon-late; Yongchun) Easily the largest clothing market in the city, Wu
Fen Pu encompasses several square blocks of lanes and alleys. You'll find everything
from the latest fashions (most shops cater to women) to T-shirts with comically bad
Chinglish slogans. To get here take MRT Exit 5 and then turn left on Songshan Rd.
Guanghua Digital Plaza ELECTRONICS
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(Guānghuá Shùwèi Xīntiāndì; 8 Civic Blvd, Sec 3; 10am-9pm; ; Zhongxiao Xinsheng) Six
storeys of electronics, software, hardware, laptops, peripherals, mobile phones and gad-
gets of all kinds. Dozens of smaller shops in the surrounding neighbourhood.
Orientation
Taipei is divided into 12 districts (qū), though most travellers will visit only a few. Major
streets run east-west and north-south and are labelled as such (for example, Zhongshan
North Rd). They are also numbered by section (Zhongshan N Rd, Sec 1) according to
their distance from the city centre (basically where Zhongshan and Zhongxiao Rds inter-
sect). When getting or giving addresses it's very important to know the street direction
and section.
Taipei also has numbered 'lanes', which generally run perpendicular to the main
streets. A typical address is 5 Lane 114, Shida Rd. On Shida Rd look for where number
114 would be. You'll find the lane instead of a building. The actual building address is 5
on this lane (in this case the restaurant KGB).
Then there are alleys, which are to lanes as lanes are to streets. It sounds complicated
but after one or two tries it becomes intuitive.
Surrounding Taipei is New Taipei City (formerly Taipei County) with various muni-
cipalities such as Zhonghe, Yonghe, Banqiao and Tamsui arbitrarily divided from Taipei
by the river. When sights in these areas are accessible by MRT we cover them in this
chapter. Otherwise, see Northern Taiwan for sights within New Taipei City.
Information
EMERGENCY
Citizen Hotline ( 1999) The most useful number to call for anything from noise and
environmental complaints to asking to be connected to the police or fire department.
English service.
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