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Touring Piziqian
The district Piziqian of Banqiao District in New Taipei City (Taipei) is a subburb located in Taiwan a little south-west of Taipei, the country's capital place.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 31°C / 87 °F
Morning Temperature | 24°C / 76 °F |
Evening Temperature | 27°C / 81 °F |
Night Temperature | 24°C / 76 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 1% |
Air Humidity | 59% |
Air Pressure | 1013 hPa |
Wind Speed | Moderate breeze with 10 km/h (6 mph) from South-East |
Cloud Conditions | Few clouds, covering 18% of sky |
General Conditions | Light rain |
Tuesday, 7th of May 2024
28°C (83 °F)
23°C (74 °F)
Overcast clouds, moderate breeze.
Wednesday, 8th of May 2024
25°C (78 °F)
22°C (71 °F)
Overcast clouds, moderate breeze.
Thursday, 9th of May 2024
25°C (77 °F)
21°C (70 °F)
Few clouds, moderate breeze.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Taipei Garden Hotel
The One Nanyuan
Zhonghe Four Points by Sheraton Taipei
Chateau de Chine Sinjhuang
Ximen 101-s HOTEL
Ecfa Hotel-Ximen Red House Branch
Cho Hotel
Vintage Apple Hotel
ECFA Hotel Ximen
New World Hotel
Videos from this area
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VIVOTEK IP8155HP Footage - WDR Pro II (Banqiao Station Gateway)
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New Taipei City 新北 Skyline
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Tracing Pigeon!!
What are they doing!? So funny!! Recorded with Sony Xperia S in Banqiao Dist, New Taipei City, Taiwan (R.O.C).
【台鐵】EMU700型電聯車駛入板橋車站 TRA Local Train
臺灣鐵路管理局西部幹線區間車Taiwan Railway Western Line EMU700 series arrival at Banqiao station, New Taipei City.
【台鐵】TEMU1000型電聯車駛入板橋車站 TAROKO Express Train
臺灣鐵路管理局傾斜式列車的太魯閣自強號Taiwan Railway Tilting Train TEMU1000 series arrival at Banqiao station, New Taipei City. 台湾の板橋駅に到着するタロコ号。
【台鐵】團體列車71次駛入板橋車站 TRA Group Train
臺灣鐵路管理局東部幹線花蓮-樹林每天行駛觀光列車Tauwan Railway Eastern Lines group train arrival at Banqiao station, New Taipei City. 莒光号用客車を使用した団体...
Taiwan Highspeed Rail: Train departure at Banciao
After travelling down from Taipei to the South on the East side of Taiwan, we took Taiwan's High Speed Rail from Zuoying (near Kaohsiung) up to Banciao (near Taipei) along Taiwan's west coast....
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Wanhua District
Wanhua District, known in Taiwanese as Bangka a.k.a. Monga, is Taipei City's oldest district. The district is home to historic buildings such as Longshan Temple, an historic temple, and the Red House Theater, the first and largest teahouse and playhouse in Taiwan. Taipei's oldest, but decaying, garment district is also here.
Mengjia Longshan Temple
Mengjia Longshan Temple was built in Taipei in 1738 by settlers from Fujian, China. It served as a place of worship and a gathering place for the Chinese settlers. The temple has been destroyed either in full or in part on numerous earthquakes and fires. During World War II, on 31 May 1945 it was hit by American bombers during the Raid on Taipei, who claimed the Japanese were hiding armaments inside.
Micro-Star International
Micro-Star International Co. , Ltd (MSI) (Chinese: :微星科技, "Micro-Star Technology") is a Taiwanese electronics company based in New Taipei City. It is one of the world's largest information technology manufacturers with its Baoan Plant in Shenzhen and research and development facilities in Kunshan.
Fu Jen Catholic University
Fu Jen Catholic University is Taiwan’s largest and oldest Catholic university run by the Divine Word Missionaries, the Society of Jesus and the Chinese Diocesan clergy in New Taipei City. Colloquially the school is known as "FǔDà" (輔大). When Fu Jen operated following approval by Pope Pius XI in Beijing until 1952, it was known as the Catholic University of Peking. The University was founded in 1925 by the Order of Saint Benedict and re-established in 1961.
Presidential Office Building, Taipei
The Presidential Office Building houses the Office of the President of the Republic of China. The building, located in the Zhongzheng District in the national capital of Taipei, Republic of China, was designed by architect Uheiji Nagano during the period of Japanese rule of Taiwan (1895–1945). The structure originally housed the Office of the Governor-General of Taiwan.
Banqiao Stadium
Banqiao Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Banqiao District, New Taipei City. It is administered by the New Taipei City Government. It consists of several parts, of which the Banqiao First Sports Ground is able to hold 30,000 people and was opened in 1987. It is currently used mostly for football matches. In recent years, it has also been used for outdoor concerts. Guns N' Roses kicked off their 2009-2011 World Tour at the stadium on December 11, 2009.
Xinzhuang Baseball Stadium
Xinzhuang Baseball Stadium is a baseball stadium in Xinzhuang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan. It is currently mostly used for CPBL baseball games. The stadium can hold 12,500 people and was opened in 1997.
Supreme Court of the Republic of China
The Supreme Court of the Republic of China is the court of last resort in the Republic of China, although matters regarding interpretation of the Constitution and unifying the interpretation of laws and orders are decided by the Constitutional Court of the Judicial Yuan.
National Taiwan Museum
National Taiwan Museum (Chinese: 國立台灣博物館; pinyin: Guólì Táiwān bówùguǎn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Kok lip tai oan phok but koan), established in 1908, is the oldest museum in Taiwan. It was set up by the colonial government during Japanese rule in Taiwan. It is located in Taipei.
Red House Theater
The Red House Theater (紅樓劇場), often called the Red Theater or Red Play House in English, is a historic theater in the Ximending area of Taipei, Taiwan. Built in 1908 during Japanese rule and designed by Japanese architect Kondo Juro, it was originally a market building but was used as a theater from 1945 onwards. The building recently underwent an extensive renovation.
Qingshui Temple
Qingshui Temple also known as Tsushih Temple or the "Divine Progenitors Temple" is a temple in dedicated to the god Qingshui Zushi, a Northern Song Dynasty Buddhist monk who is said to have saved a town from a drought. The temple is located in the Wanhua District of Taipei City, Taiwan and was constructed in 1787 CE. In 1958, the temple was renovated and restored. The temple is often called "the most characteristic example of mid-Qing temple architecture."
National Museum of History
The National Museum of History (NMH) is located in the Nanhai Academy in Zhongzheng District, Taipei, Taiwan and exhibits Chinese historical items. After the Republic of China government moved to Taiwan, the National Museum of History was the first museum established.
Yongan Market Station
The Taipei Metro Yongan Market Station is a station on the Zhonghe Line (part of the Orange Line) located in Yonghe and Zhonghe districts, New Taipei, Taiwan.
Xiaonanmen Station
The Taipei Metro Xiaonanmen Station is an underground station on the Xiaonanmen Line located in Zhongzheng District, Taipei, Taiwan.
Fuzhong Station
The Taipei Metro Fuzhong Station is a station on the Banqiao Line located in Banqiao District, New Taipei City, Taiwan.
Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School
Taipei Municipal Jianguo High School (Chinese: 臺北市立建國高級中學, JGHS; formerly Chien Kuo in the Wade-Giles transliteration instead of Pinyin) is a high school for boys, which is located in Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, Taiwan. The school was established in 1898 during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, and was the Taipei First High School, the first public high school in Taiwanese history.
Banqiao District
Banqiao District is the city seat of New Taipei in northern Taiwan. It has the third highest population density in Taiwan. It was formerly the 22nd densest city in the world, with over 24,000 people per square km. Until the December 25, 2010 creation of New Taipei, Banqiao was itself a city and the former seat of Taipei County.
Banqiao Station
Banqiao Station (板橋車站) is a railway station located in Banqiao District, New Taipei, Taiwan. The station serves high-speed rail, conventional rail, and metro trains. All tracks and platforms in the station are located underground. The new station building opened on July 19, 1999 for TRA trains, May 31, 2006 for the Taipei Metro, and on January 5, 2007 for Taiwan High Speed Rail. The station currently handles over 106,000 passengers per day.
Taiwan Education Association Building
The original Taiwan Education Association Building (原臺灣教育會館) was built in 1931 and originally housed exhibits of educational achievements in Taiwan, and served as a venue for regular gatherings. It is located in Taipei, Taiwan. Its design was directed by Ide Kaoru, the chief of the Japanese colonial government's civil engineering section, and was thus quite similar to that of the Taipei Assembly Hall.
Taipei Botanical Garden
The Taipei Botanical Garden is located in the Nanhai Academy on Nanhai Road in Zhongzheng District, Taipei, Taiwan. The Botanical Garden covers an area of about 15 hectares and includes over 1500 plant species.
Wanhua Station
Wanhua Station is a Taiwan Railway Administration station located in Wanhua, Taipei, Taiwan.
National Education Radio
National Education Radio is a government owned radio station in the Republic of China. It was founded in 1960 and is located in the Zhongzheng District of Taipei City, Taiwan next to the Taipei Botanical Garden and National Museum of History. The Headquarters building has been a registered historic landmark since 2009.
Red Envelope Club
A Red Envelope Club is a form of Cabaret in Taiwan that originated in Taipei in the 1960s as an imitation of Shanghai Cabaret. In these cabarets, female singers sing old Chinese songs from the 1920s to 1950s to mostly older men, many of whom were soldiers in General Chiang Kai-Shek's Kuomintang army that fled Mainland China after the Chinese Civil War. The cabarets get their name from the fact that the audience gives the singers, who they appreciate, money in red envelopes.
Republic of China Presidential Museum
The Republic of China Presidential Museum is a museum located behind the Presidential Office Building in Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China. The museum's collection includes collections and archives belonging to previous Presidents of the Republic of China. The collection also includes furniture and artwork which belonged to previous Presidents as well a digital reading room which contains 1,100 publications and 687 books related to ROC presidents.
Lin Family Mansion and Garden
The Lin Ben Yuan Family Mansion and Garden (林本源園邸) in Banqiao District, New Taipei City was a residence built by the Lin Ben Yuan Family, of Banqiao, Taiwan. It is Taiwan's most-complete surviving example of traditional Chinese garden architecture. It is also known as the Lin Family Gardens.