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Cafés in Yongkang Street & Shida

Yongkang Street's lanes, tea shops on Lishui Street and the late cafés around Shida Road.

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Yongkang Street (永康街) runs south from Xinyi Road to Lane 33 of Lishui Street in Da'an District, with Yongkang Park at the center of its shopping streets and Din Tai Fung's flagship near the top.1 The lanes around it are packed with restaurants, handicraft shops and cafés, and Lishui Street, which runs parallel, adds shops selling tea, pottery and traditional clothes.4 Taipei's tea houses are easiest to find here and on Dihua Street.5

South of Heping East Road lay Shōwa-chō (昭和町), the Japanese-era quarter where professors of Taihoku Imperial University lived; parts of Qingtian, Yongkang and Wenzhou Streets fall within its old boundaries.2 To the west, National Taiwan Normal University gives Shida (師大) its name and its night market. This is where Taipei's late cafés cluster most densely: several pour until midnight.

Local tip: For a late table, walk to Shida Road: God Knows in Lane 105 serves coffee until midnight, and 老茶人 on the same road pours tea until 23:00.

At a glance

188Cafés listed
19With opening hours
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00:00Latest closing
  • Opens earliest: Dreamers, from 07:00 (Daily 07:00–21:30).
  • Closes latest: 2J CAFE, until 00:00 (Daily 11:30–00:00).
  • Most common features: wi-fi (8%), open late (6%), partial wheelchair access (3%).

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Coffee chains in Yongkang Street & Shida

Getting to Yongkang Street and Shida

Dongmen station, where the Zhonghe–Xinlu and Tamsui–Xinyi lines cross, is the stop for Yongkang Street: take Exit 4 or 5.47 Its Zhonghe–Xinlu platforms opened in September 2012 and the Tamsui–Xinyi ones in November 2013.7 For Shida, Taipower Building station is closer; the night market is about 500 m north of Exit 3.6

Yongkang Street carries two-way traffic north of the Aiguo East Road junction and is one-way south of it.1

Tea houses between Yongkang Park and Xinsheng South Road

Wistaria House (紫藤廬), at Lane 16, Section 3 of Xinsheng South Road, is a Taishō-era official residence that Zhou Yu (周渝) opened as a tea house on 18 January 1981.3 His father, customs commissioner Zhou Dewei, had made it a salon for liberal scholars; after the Formosa Incident it became a meeting place for the dangwai (黨外, the opposition before democratization), and the city made it a monument in 1997.3 Ang Lee shot scenes of Eat Drink Man Woman there.3

Closer to the park, Hui Liu Tea & Tea Arts is at Lane 31, No. 9 of Yongkang Street. Qingtian Tea House (青田茶館) keeps tea-house hours, Tuesday to Sunday 10:00–18:00, and 老茶人 ("old tea man") on Shida Road serves daily until 23:00.

Where the cafés are

Yongkang Street's numbered lanes hold the densest run. Come True Coffee and youmoutoohana (羊毛與花) share Lane 37, YABOO (鴉埠咖啡) is at Lane 41, No. 26, and 月半咖啡 is in Lane 47. youmoutoohana's Yongkang room is one of the chain's branches without a time limit, according to a 2025 TVBS round-up.8

Lane 243 of Jinhua Street is a second pocket, with Cafe Libero (咖啡小自由), Roaster Family Coffee (烘培者咖啡) and 永康階 on the same lane. On Jinhua Street itself, Out of Office Coffee Roastery at No. 207 is a minimalist room with a Zen look.4 On the Shida side, God Knows (天曉得) is in Lane 105 of Shida Road, and Chamber (秘氏咖啡) and the Shida branch of 路燈咖啡 ("streetlamp coffee") are on Pucheng Street.

Early on Xinyi Road, late in Shida

Dreamers at No. 204, Section 2 of Xinyi Road opens daily at 07:00, and 紀咖啡 on Heping East Road at 07:30; most of the others open between 10:00 and 14:00. At the far end of the day, 2J CAFE in Lane 79 of Jianguo South Road, YABOO on Yongkang Street and God Knows on Shida Road all serve until midnight, and 黑潮 stays open until 00:00 from Tuesday to Sunday.

Shida Night Market is smaller than it used to be: residents complained about noise, trash and crowds, and the city rezoned parts of it.6

Sources

  1. 永康街 (臺北市), Wikipedia (Chinese), accessed October 2026
  2. 昭和町 (臺北市), Wikipedia (Chinese), accessed October 2026
  3. 紫藤廬, Wikipedia (Chinese), accessed October 2026
  4. Taipei/Daan, Wikivoyage, accessed October 2026
  5. Taipei, Wikivoyage, accessed October 2026
  6. Shida Night Market, Wikipedia, accessed October 2026
  7. Dongmen metro station, Wikipedia, accessed October 2026
  8. 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

Yongkang Street & Shida cafés: questions

How do you get to Yongkang Street in Taipei by MRT?

Take the Zhonghe–Xinlu or Tamsui–Xinyi line to Dongmen station and use Exit 4 or 5 for Yongkang Street. For the Shida side and its night market, Taipower Building station is closer: the market is about 500 m north of Exit 3.

Where are the tea houses near Yongkang Street in Taipei?

Wistaria House, a Taishō-era residence at Lane 16, Section 3 of Xinsheng South Road, has been a tea house since 1981. Hui Liu Tea & Tea Arts is in Lane 31 of Yongkang Street, Lishui Street has tea shops, and Qingtian Tea House opens Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00–18:00.

Which cafés near Yongkang Street and Shida in Taipei stay open late?

2J CAFE in Lane 79 of Jianguo South Road, YABOO on Yongkang Street and God Knows on Shida Road serve until midnight every day, and 黑潮 stays open until 00:00 from Tuesday to Sunday. 老茶人 on Shida Road serves tea until 23:00.

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