This route does not collect landmarks. It reads, on foot, the layers one street has accumulated — from a migration of the defeated to a question about rent. The order is the timeline.
Recommended route: The Port the Defeated Built Half-Day Walk
Order · Stop · Suggested time
1 · MRT Beimen → enter the south end of Dihua Street · 15–20 min
2 · North along Dihua Sec. 1 — herb and dried-goods shops, look up at façades (Ep.4, 6) · 50–70 min
3 · Xiahai City God Temple (Ep.5) + Yongle Market fabric (Ep.6) · 30–40 min
4 · One reuse shophouse — walk the three-bay depth, tea or coffee (Ep.7) · 40–60 min
5 · Northern stretch of Dihua — watch the shophouse styles change · 30–40 min
6 · Out to the Tamsui riverbank for sunset (revisiting the wharf layer) · 20–30 min
Designing the hours
The answer is a Friday or Saturday morning start Fact. Many shops close Monday, so the wrong day costs you the working scene of Ep.6 entirely, and a morning start is what lets you see the market actually trading Estimate. Putting the riverbank sunset last lets you close by confirming, one more time, why this street came to be here at all (Ep.2).
Choosing the season
Going during the Lunar New Year market changes the density of the street completely Fact. If you want a festival, that is the time; if you want quiet alleys and conversation with old shopkeepers, avoid it. The dates follow the lunar calendar, so check each year Unconfirmed.
Four cities, one theme
Choryang in Busan, Red Hook in New York, Yanesen in Tokyo, Dadaocheng in Taipei — four discovered destinations on different continents, sharing one theme: how a working old district holds itself against time and development Estimate. Add Euljiro and the London trilogy and this destination series becomes one map of nine cities passing through the same question. Recall that in front of the Dadaocheng sunset, and this half day stops being sightseeing and becomes reading.