Yizhong Street Night Market (一中街夜市) is a more centrally located Taichung night market. This one is Taichung’s hippest night market, so I would compare it to Ximending shopping district in Taipei.

Yizhong Street is known as a shopping street focused on trendy, low-priced trendy in the daytime, and for its many cram schools. The street is named after Taichung First Senior High School (Taichung YiZhong / 臺中一中), which is also found on the street. It is also crammed between the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology and the National Taiwan University of Sport.

In the late afternoon and evening, it bursts to life with night market stalls, which are concentrated on Yizhong Street, starting in the south at Jingwu Road (精武路) across the street from Taichung Park, and stretching north to Jinxin Street (錦新街), plus several alleys leading east and west off from it.

The food stalls at Yizhong Night Market cater to the high school and university students (lucky them!) and the many other youths who flock there to feast, shop for fashionable items, and play night market games. Even though the vibe is trendy, the foods for sale in this market are still mostly traditional.

Some quirky shops here include a branch of the famous poo-themed Taiwanese chain restaurant Modern Toilet on the edge of the night market area. There are also at least two “maid cafés”: (Mao Mao Maid Café, which serves as both a maid and cat café) and (Doki² Maid Cafe).