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Cafés in Shennong Street & Haian Road

Qing-era shophouses on Shennong Street, cafés above Yongle Market on Guohua Street and late hours on Hai'an Road.

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Shennong Street (神農街) was Beishi Street (北勢街) in the Qing era, a merchant street between two of the Five Channels, the river ports that linked the city to the Taijiang inner sea.12 Its two-story shophouses are narrow at the front and long behind, with an upper door: goods were hoisted by rope to the second floor, and a stone block at each doorway helped with the loading.1

In 1823 a storm turned the Zengwen River into the Taijiang, the inner sea filled with silt, and the street's trade went with it.1 Tainan's tourism office now calls Shennong Street a center for young artists and handmade goods, and asks visitors to follow each shop's rules, since some ban photography.3 Around it, cafés run along Hai'an Road, Guohua Street, Zhengxing Street and Xinyi Street.

Local tip: On a Wednesday evening, walk about 15 minutes from Shennong Street to Wusheng Night Market, which opened in 1984 and is the oldest of Tainan's big night markets still running.7

At a glance

120Cafés listed
12With opening hours
07:00Earliest opening
23:00Latest closing
  • Opens earliest: Carpenter Coffee, from 07:00 (Daily 07:00–19:00).
  • Closes latest: 好好笑, until 23:00 (Daily 14:30–23:00).
  • Most common features: wi-fi (3%), open late (3%), smoke-free indoors (3%).

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Coffee chains in Shennong Street & Haian Road

Hai'an Road, from underground mall to street gallery

Hai'an Road (海安路) runs about 3.7 km; its first section reaches from Yonghua Road to Zhongzheng Road, the second on to Chenggong Road.4 In 1992 the city planned to move the shops along it into an underground mall, work began in mid-1993, and the mall did not fully open until the end of 2002.4 A surface makeover followed in 2017 and 2018, and on 18 August 2018 eleven ventilation towers, 5–6 m tall, opened as a street art gallery between Fuqian Road and Minzu Road.4

Coffee lines the road above: 小雨咖啡X3952拿鐵館 at Section 1, No. 133 opens 10:00–23:00 and closes on Tuesdays, while 咖啡大叔 is at No. 9 and 咖啡色 at No. 207. Further up, 小事咖啡 and 微笑31 sit in lanes off Section 2.

Shennong Street by night

太古101咖啡 occupies a two-story house where Shennong Street meets Kangle Street; when its owners fixed it up, they kept beams of Fuzhou fir and an upper ceiling made from the deck planks of a Japanese merchant ship.1 It opens 12:00–22:30 daily.

Most of the street wakes up after lunch. 好好笑 at No. 82 opens 14:30–23:00, 阿朗基公寓 at No. 72 11:00–22:00 and 微笑日作菓子 at No. 109 10:30–19:00. 69咖啡小鋪 is at No. 69, Fat Cat Story at No. 135, and 登出帶茶 is in the second courtyard of No. 76.

Yongle Market, Kangle Market and Guohua Street

Kangle Market on Hai'an Road was the Sakariba (沙卡里巴), from the Japanese 盛場 (sakariba, a lively market), where Taiwanese food stalls crowded together under Japanese rule.5 Among its stalls, 毛利屋珈琲 is at No. 188 and the tea counter 詠茶館 at Hai'an Road Section 1, No. 160.

Across Guohua Street, cafés climb to the second floor of Yongle Market. 秘氏咖啡 recreates a 1960s Hong Kong café in the style of the film Days of Being Wild, opens 14:00–22:00 and closes on Wednesdays and Thursdays; as of 2026, its pour-overs, drinks and snacks cost NT$200–400.6 雀色喫茶 is upstairs in the same market.

Guohua Street's earliest start is Carpenter Coffee at Section 3, No. 81, open 07:00–19:00 with tables outside. Tea has a strong showing too: 飲花茶室 at No. 26 and 泉霖茶吧 at No. 184, with Jj虹吸咖啡, whose name promises siphon coffee, at No. 72.

Zhengxing Street, Xinyi Street and Fuqian Road

On Zhengxing Street (正興街), Watch Out is at No. 9, Coffee.Tea.Or at No. 90 and 醒醒文化 at No. 94, with 未艾閱讀咖啡, a reading café, in Lane 77. Xinyi Street has Hangout Cafe at No. 63, 木蘭咖啡 and the tea room 十八品茶席 in Lane 46, and 狐狸小屋 at No. 118, open 13:00–18:00 except Mondays.

In Lane 342 of Fuqian Road, 杏源珈琲 took over the old 杏源蔘藥行 herbal pharmacy, fits out its entrance as a dispensing counter and lets you draw a fortune slip to pick the day's coffee; the latte comes in a Chinese teacup.6 It opens 08:00–18:00, Thursday to Sunday.6 piano piano 慢慢咖啡, in the same lane, opens 09:00–17:00 daily.

Sources

  1. 台南神農街，留住沒落的輝煌, Global Views Monthly 遠見雜誌 (October 1, 2013), accessed October 2026
  2. Old Five Channels Cultural Zone (五條港文化園區), Tainan City Government Tourism Bureau (twtainan.net), accessed October 2026
  3. Shennong Street (神農街), Tainan City Government Tourism Bureau (twtainan.net), accessed October 2026
  4. 海安路 (臺南市), Wikipedia (Chinese), accessed October 2026
  5. 老台南人才知！「沙卡里巴」市場5家厲害小吃, TVBS 食尚玩家 Supertaste (June 6, 2019), accessed October 2026
  6. 台南咖啡廳推薦｜11家特色咖啡館：老屋文青、玻璃屋景觀、森林系一次收藏, TVBS 食尚玩家 Supertaste (July 8, 2026), accessed October 2026
  7. The “Big Five” Night Markets in Tainan & What to Eat at Each One, Nickkembel Travels (updated September 2026), accessed October 2026
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FAQ

Shennong Street & Haian Road cafés: questions

What was Shennong Street in Tainan called before?

Shennong Street in Tainan was Beishi Street (北勢街) in the Qing era, a merchant street between two of the Five Channels river ports. Its shophouses have an upper door because goods were hoisted by rope to the second floor. Trade faded after 1823, when the Zengwen River flooded into the Taijiang inner sea and silted it up.

Where are the cafés in Tainan's Yongle Market on Guohua Street?

Upstairs. On the second floor of Yongle Market on Guohua Street in Tainan, 秘氏咖啡 recreates a 1960s Hong Kong café, opens 14:00–22:00 and closes Wednesdays and Thursdays; its pour-overs, drinks and snacks cost NT$200–400 as of 2026. 雀色喫茶 is on the same floor, and Kangle Market across the street has 毛利屋珈琲.

Which cafés on Tainan's Shennong Street and Hai'an Road stay open late?

On Shennong Street in Tainan, 好好笑 at No. 82 opens until 23:00, 太古101咖啡 at the Kangle Street corner until 22:30 and 阿朗基公寓 at No. 72 until 22:00. On Hai'an Road, 小雨咖啡X3952拿鐵館 at Section 1, No. 133 opens 10:00–23:00 and closes on Tuesdays.

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