Kuohua & Yoai New Business Area

Kuohua & Yoai New Business Area is the only landmark which has witnessed the change of different era in Tainan. For young people of the new generation, Kuohua & Yoai New Business Area has a similar image than the one of Ximendin in Taipei, as a fashionable hangout. For those elder locals, Kuohua & Yoai New Business Area is the best location to find out the old memories of Tainan City.

Old emotions have new streets. The department store of local grannies has a newborn hope.

Shichidin (Kuohua and Yoai Streets) is the department store for the grannies. It includes different aspects: Humanistic (The old shops of Tainan), Nature (Third class historic site: Territory Protector Pine King, also known as Couple’s Tree) and Geography (Heart of Ancient Capital, Tainan). A walk on Kuohua and Yoai Streets passing by the Canal, you can see how here is called the Museum of Life in Tainan.

The famous Sakariba Kanle Mrket is also here. Walk into any alley and you will feel immediately the friendly nature of Tainan’s people. Traditional shops one after the other, stalls of delicacies full of people. The stall owners’ shouting, inviting you to sit and enjoy the food. Why not just do so?