Day 5: Shopping at Wufenpu and Raohe Night Market

I don't know how many times I have visited Raohe and Wufenpu. Just this trip alone, I have visited Wufenpu and Raohe 5 times with 5 different groups of people!
The day, I met up with Mirai after my filming!

And then we proceeded to Wufenpu. 

WuFenPu (五分埔), the largest garment wholesale market in TaiPei (台北). Up to 1,000 shops selling huge variety of products like clothes, bags, shoes, jewelry, accessories, etc with reasonable price range. For those who likes trendy and creative fashions, WuFenPu will be a place that you won’t want to miss. It opens daily from around 1100 to 2200, do take note the operating hours is just for reference, some shops might close earlier.

RaoHe Night Market (饒河街觀光夜市), absolutely a good choice to fulfill your craving for local foods after tired shopping in WuFenPu. The 600 meters long night market was located on RaoHe Street, setup in year 1987, was one of the oldest night markets in TaiPei. You can find plenty of delicious local foods and also other products like clothes and accessories there. Its operating hours is from 1700 to 0000 daily.

Getting to WuFenPu (五分埔)

Take MRT from TaiPei Main Station (台北車站) to HouShanPi (後山埤) Station, with travel time of 13mins and cost at NT25 and then exit at EXIT 1. Go up the flight of stairs and follow the sign. It will take 4 - 5 minutes to reach your destination!

Useful and informative WuFenPu map found in http://www.wufenpu.com/.

Here are some products that you can find in WuFenPu:

• 1st street: Full of trendy products.
• 3rd street: Area with highest density of shops, include teahouse, shoes store and  clothes shops selling Japanese style products.
• 5th street: Products mainly focus on Europe, USA, Japanese and Korean style. It was easy to find some shops selling unique hip hop and punk goods at this street too.
• 7th street: Plenty of Korean style sport and street wears for lady.
• 13th street: Mainly Japanese style clothes for lady.
• 19th street (SongShan Road Lane 119): Hong Kong and Korean style lady clothes, can find a lot of elegant and traditional wears.
• YongJi Road (永吉路) : Kid’s wear , some were imported goods.
• ZhongPo Park (中坡公園): Where you can find local cuisine and snacks. Some accessories stalls were available too.

After shopping, we proceeded to Raohe Night Market. Now that Songshan station is open for service, and if you are lazy, just go back to Houshanpi and take the train to Songshan station! Else, just keep walking. It will take 10 minutes to reach!

After shopping and eating at Raohe Night Market, we went to Shilin Night Market! Non-stop shopping!

Bumped into Terence while shopping at Shilin!