Ximending
Sign in to saveXimending is a neighborhood and shopping district in the Wanhua District of Taipei, Taiwan. The Ximending Pedestrian Area was the first pedestrian zone constructed in Taipei and remains the largest in Taiwan.
Key facts
- Chinese.revhep
- Seimon-chō
- Settlement.name
- Ximending
- Settlement.type
- Neighborhood
- Settlement.native_name
- 西門町
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- zh-TW
- Settlement.image_skyline
- 從屈臣氏西門門市到錢櫃台北中華新館 20211204.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Intersection of Hanzhong Street and Chengdu Road
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Taiwan
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Special municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Taipei
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Wanhua
- Chinese.title
- Ximending
- Chinese.s
- 西门町
- Chinese.p
- Xīméndīng
- Chinese.w
- Hsimenting
- Chinese.bpmf
- ㄒㄧ ㄇㄣˊㄉㄧㄥ
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Ximending is a neighborhood and shopping district in the Wanhua District of Taipei, Taiwan. The Ximending Pedestrian Area was the first pedestrian zone constructed in Taipei and remains the largest in Taiwan.
==History== ===Name=== The area is named after the administrative division , which existed during the Japanese rule, referring to an area outside the west gate of the city. The area of Seimon-chō included modern-day Chengdu Road (), Xining South Road (), Kunming Street (), and Kangding Road ().