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13. The Eastern District
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Night life in Taipei

Follow Chunghsiao East Road (near the Kuanghua Market) to the prominent Sogo Department Store, and you've found the Tinghao area, where Taipei's Eastern District begins. Up until the 1970s, east Taipei was mostly rice paddies. Now it is some of the priciest real estate on the planet, crowded with upscale fashion boutiques, piano bars, models and millionaires.

The epicenter of the East District is the intersection of Chunghsiao and Tunhua South Road, but the fashion strip keeps running down Chunghsiao all the way to the Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall.

The entire East District starts as far south as Hoping East Road and extends as far north as the Sungshan domestic airport. Tying it all together is Tunhua Road. Flanked by blocks of brightly lit stores, restaurants and apartments, and embellished down the middle by its broad, tree-lined median, Tunhua makes a mockery of those false reports of Taipei as an unsightly city.

Close to the traffic circle where Tunhua meets Jenai Road is the main branch of the Eslite Bookstore, open 24 hours a day, where the insomniac crowd can be found leafing through magazines and novels at any given three o'clock in the morning. This is also a great place to pick up English-language books, particularly ones on things Chinese and Taiwanese.

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