#ximending

[shihlun]

Entrance to the Ximending Cinema District, Taipei, 1979

[mendocha]

ximending was a chaotic kind of fun

(sony a6000 + TTArtisan 25mm F2)

[afrenchladyinnc]

[thistransient]

元宵節時的西門町 // Ximending during the Lantern Festival

[calpicowater]

Week 27.2/52: July 1st - July 7th 2024 | Last Day in Taiwan

fantuan for breakfast!!!!! finally

longshan temple

botanical garden (I don't rec)

the hainanese chicken rice for dinner was yums!

[by-dewirs]

Which gacha machine will you choose?

Jan 27, 2023. Ximending, Taipei, Taiwan

[maiji]

“There Used to Be a Temple Here” - Ximending, in Wanhua District, is one of Taipei’s most popular destinations, packed with hotspots for shopping, food, art and design, fashion and so on. 

Nearby is a park with a small hill in the centre. On this hill is a bell tower - the top part of it, anyways, since the sign nearby says that the tower used to sit on a 10-foot tall rock foundation. This is Nishi Honganji Square (in Mandarin, 西本願寺廣場 Xīběnyuànsì GuǎngChǎng), and these are the remains of Nishi Honganji ("Western Temple of the Original Vow"), the Taiwanese branch of the Jodo Shinshu Pure Land Buddhist sect and the largest Japanese-style Buddhist temple in Taiwan in its heyday. 

This drawing shows the perspective when you're standing in the tower with its roof over your head, looking out towards the rinbansyo/rinbansho, or former head priest’s quarters, now a tea house called Eighty-Eightea Rinbansyo. More about this setting, and a glimpse of Taiwan’s complex history, along with some personal reflections and travel memories at https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/2165808

[theworldthroughmycamerassc]

Ximending - Taipei, Taiwan