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Cafés in Minsheng Community & Songshan
A 1960s planned neighborhood of park-lined lanes, a latte-art pioneer and 07:30 openers on Nanjing East Road.
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Minsheng Community (民生社區) in Songshan District was developed in the 1960s and 1970s along American town-planning lines, Taiwan's first model community of the kind.1 The planners followed Clarence Perry's neighborhood-unit theory and split it into seven units around the Minsheng roundabout, with 25 parks taking up about a tenth of the land and power lines buried from the start.1
South of it, Songshan is a financial center, with many banks along Dunhua North and Nanjing East Roads.2 Its cafés fall into two groups: neighborhood rooms in the numbered lanes off Minsheng East Road, and a row of coffee bars on Nanjing East Road Section 5, two of which open at 07:30 on weekdays.
Local tip: Before an evening at Raohe Street Night Market, stop at Daychill on Nanjing East Road Section 5, which serves until 23:00, or 좋은 날 (好日子咖啡) on Yanshou Street, open until 22:00.
At a glance
246Cafés listed
15With opening hours
07:30Earliest opening
23:00Latest closing
- Opens earliest: OFNA Coffee, from 07:30 (Mon–Fri 07:30–18:00).
- Closes latest: Daychill Specialty Coffee Co., until 23:00 (Tue–Sun 12:00–23:00).
- Most common features: wi-fi (6%), specialty (2%), smoke-free indoors (2%).
Daychill Specialty Coffee Co.
Leisure Cafe
Milkglider Latteartist Unity
OFNA Coffee
Pause Studio
Roffy’s Cafe
true from
좋은 날 好日子咖啡
四維咖啡商號
Café 4 Way
瑞帛咖啡
Rebirth Coffee
璐緹咖啡
點光咖啡
The Quiet Light
威爾貝克咖啡
Wilbeck Caf'e
晨露
Little droplet
1/2咖啡
396 小信義
8克C
A.J. Coffee Bar
About Coffee
After Rain Coffee and Dessert
Anytime café 隨食
Art's Cafe
ASK for Cafe and Bar
Authentic Taiwanese tea
Be Heroes Cafe
BLUEROOM
BooGoo Café 布咕咖啡
Cafe BomBom
Cafe E
Cafe Mode 木馬
Café Roi
- Partial wheelchair access
Cafe'ViVo108
CAFEAO
CafeBallet芭蕾咖啡館
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Coffee chains in Minsheng Community & Songshan
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Starbucks 星巴克
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- 星巴克Mon–Fri 07:00–18:00
- No. 128, Xinhu 2nd Rd. 1F
- No.188, Sec. 1, Jiuzong Rd. RT-MART
- No.340 9, Dunhua N. Rd. 2F
- 星巴克, 八德路三段 10之2號Daily 07:00–21:30
- 星巴克, 南京東路三段 337
- 星巴克, 南京東路五段 171
- 星巴克, 南京東路四段 56號
- 星巴克, 台北市松山區敦化北路340-9號2F (一航廈)
- 星巴克 民生門市, 台灣105台北市松山區民生東路三段105號
- 星巴克, 敦化北路 147號
- 星巴克, 東興路 65號
- 星巴克, 松山路 11
- 星巴克, 民生東路三段 156號
- 星巴克, 民生東路五段 150之1
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Louisa Coffee 路易莎咖啡
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- 路易莎咖啡, No. 131號, Section 6, Civic BlvdDaily 07:00–22:00
- 路易莎咖啡, No. 166號, Section 4, Nanjing E Rd
- No. 35號, Lane 244, Dunhua N Rd
- 路易莎咖啡, No. 786號, Section 4, Bade Rd
- 路易莎, 三民路101巷 2之3號
- 路易莎咖啡-八德台安店, 八德路四段429號
- 路易莎咖啡南京復興店, 南京東路三段256巷20弄2號
- 路易莎咖啡 麥帥店, 南京東路五段250巷2弄19號
- 路易莎咖啡, 慶城街16巷 8
- 路易.莎, 新東街 33號
- 路易莎咖啡, 民善街88號
- 路易莎咖啡, 民生東路五段 13號
- 民生東路四段56號
- 路易莎咖啡, 長安東路二段 429
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cama café
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85°C Bakery Cafe
- 光復北路 167Daily 07:30–00:00
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Dante Coffee 丹堤咖啡
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Ikari Coffee 怡客咖啡
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Mr. Brown Coffee 伯朗咖啡館
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Peter Better Café 彼得好咖啡
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Komeda's Coffee 客美多咖啡
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Barista Coffee 西雅圖極品咖啡
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Cafe!N 硬咖啡
- 南京東路五段 178Mon–Fri 07:00–17:00 · Sat–Sun 08:00–17:00
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壹咖啡
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TWO SHOTS
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Otaru Coffee 小樽手作珈琲
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雪球咖啡
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Felice Cafe
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Fujin Tree Café 富錦樹咖啡
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Ueshima Coffee 上島珈琲店
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All Day Roasting Company
- 延壽街 329Daily 10:00–21:00
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Caffé Bene 咖啡伴
- Caffebene咖啡伴, 敦化北路 340之10Daily 09:00–17:00
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Haaya's Coffee
- 敦化北路 107Mon–Sat 12:00–20:00
How Minsheng Community was built
The city set up a committee to build the new Minsheng East Road community in October 1964 and assembled the land through urban land readjustment; ground was broken in June 1965.1 By 1970 the community had Taiwan's first sewage-treatment plant, some of its schools and planned roads, and 2,500 homes.1 The plant closed in July 2002, and the wastewater now goes to the Bali treatment plant.1
Songshan Airport, the district's other landmark, began in March 1936 as a military airbase and now flies to Tokyo Haneda, Seoul Gimpo and Shanghai Hongqiao.4
Getting there and Raohe Street
The nearest MRT stops are Nanjing Sanmin on the Songshan–Xindian line and Songshan Airport and Zhongshan Junior High School on the Wenhu line.1 Raohe Street Night Market, about 600 m long, starts a 100 m walk north of Exit 5 of Songshan station, with Ciyou Temple, founded in 1753, at its east end and Rainbow Bridge about 200 m away.3 The market was organized in 1987 and has more than 160 booths.2
Latte art and roasters in the lanes
GABEE., in Lane 113 of Minsheng East Road Section 3, opened in 2004. Its founder Lin Dong-yuan (林東源) had published a book on latte art and devised more than 30 patterns, and he won the Taiwan Barista Championship in 2006.5 Three more cafés share Lane 160, Alley 19 of Minquan East Road Section 3: A‧Place Café, Wash Coffee and Milkglider Latteartist Unity, open daily 11:00–21:00.
All Day Roasting Company at No. 329 Yanshou Street opens 10:00–21:00; a 2025 TVBS list of no-time-limit cafés noted that it had dropped an earlier time limit and has power outlets at every seat.6 On Nanjing East Road Section 5, Daychill Specialty Coffee Co. at No. 55 stays open until 23:00, Tuesday to Sunday.
Weekday mornings, lane by lane
OFNA Coffee in Lane 66 of Nanjing East Road Section 5 and Wilbeck Caf'e (威爾貝克咖啡) in Lane 123 open at 07:30 on weekdays, and Wilbeck also opens at 08:00 at weekends. Little droplet (晨露) on Dongxing Road starts at 08:30 on weekdays and Café 4 Way (四維咖啡商號) on Minsheng East Road Section 5 at 09:30.
In Lane 97 of Minsheng East Road Section 4, KAPURU COFFEE, La Vita and Spoon Goods & Cafe (勺子雜貨咖啡) sit within a few alleys of each other. Back in Lane 113 of Section 3, 睡過頭早餐俱樂部 ("oversleepers' breakfast club") is in Alley 25 and momatcha (抹綠) in Alley 7.
Sources
- 民生社區, Wikipedia (Chinese), accessed October 2026
- Songshan District, Taipei, Wikipedia, accessed October 2026
- Raohe Street Night Market, Wikipedia, accessed October 2026
- Taipei Songshan Airport, Wikipedia, accessed October 2026
- 鑽研咖啡七年 才敢開店賣咖啡 (GABEE.), Global Views Monthly (遠見雜誌), accessed October 2026
- 筆電族必收！台北10大「不限時咖啡廳」, TVBS News / DailyView (April 8, 2025), accessed October 2026
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FAQ
Minsheng Community & Songshan cafés: questions
What is Minsheng Community in Taipei?
Minsheng Community is a neighborhood in Taipei's Songshan District, developed in the 1960s and 1970s as Taiwan's first American-style model community. It is split into seven neighborhood units around the Minsheng roundabout, with 25 parks covering about a tenth of the land and power lines buried underground.
Which MRT stations serve Minsheng Community and Songshan in Taipei?
Nanjing Sanmin station on the Songshan–Xindian line, and Songshan Airport and Zhongshan Junior High School stations on the Wenhu line, are closest to Minsheng Community. For Raohe Street Night Market, use Exit 5 of Songshan station; the market starts about 100 m north.
Which cafés in Taipei's Minsheng Community and Songshan open early?
OFNA Coffee in Lane 66 of Nanjing East Road Section 5 and Wilbeck Caf'e in Lane 123 open at 07:30 on weekdays; Wilbeck opens at 08:00 at weekends. Little droplet on Dongxing Road starts at 08:30 on weekdays, and Café 4 Way on Minsheng East Road Section 5 at 09:30.
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