10 Best Places to Go Shopping in Kaohsiung

Liuhe 2nd Road, which is not far from Kaohsiung Main Station, is an ordinary street in the daytime that accommodates toy shops, famous-product shops, grocers, beauty shops, and other businesses. The street changes into Liuhe Tourist Night Market at night when vehicles are forbidden to enter the street to make room for a large number of vendors to set up stalls there. Formerly known as Dagangpu Night Market, Liuhe Tourist Night Market has gradually expanded to reach today's large scale due to its long-standing reputation. 

The market is popular with visitors from all over as it's conveniently accessible due to its proximity to Kaohsiung Main Station and metro station. The market includes many famous snack stalls. You can enjoy street foods and visit the stores on both sides of the market passageway. Street merchants and mobile vendors gather at Liuhe Tourist Night Market to provide visitors with Kaohsiung souvenirs, exquisite daily necessities, and local snacks.

E-Da Outlet Mall is a large-scale outlet shopping centre in Dashu District of Kaohsiung City, which gathers local boutique brands from Europe, America, Japan, and Taiwan. Tourists can buy fashion items at discount prices. Covering a large area, E-Da Outlet Mall offers off-season bestsellers and combines catering, entertainment, and shopping so that passengers can buy, eat, and play all in a single trip. 

If you list E-Da Outlet Mall in your itinerary, you'd better arrange more time here to shop for off-season goods with attractive discounts at every store. Another well-known landmark at E-Da Outlet Mall is its Ferris wheel, which is a must for many visitors to the mall. After all that shopping, you can board the Ferris wheel to enjoy the beautiful mountain scenery nearby while taking a break.

Qihou Tourist Market is a modern building in Qijin District of Kaohsiung City that won the Taiwan Real Estate Excellence Awards. It is designed with a steel-frame fishbone structure with special external colourful blocks. The building is ecologically designed with solar power generation to be a new environmentally-friendly landmark for shopping in the Qijin open waters area. 

Qihou Tourist Market was originally a messy market with a flock of vendors but was cleaned up and reopened after the local government constructed new buildings here and redesigned the market interior, making it an excellent place for purchasing food in Qijin. Qijin is famous for its seafood, and Qihou Tourist Market offers a diversity of seafood ingredients to tourists. There's plenty of local dried seafood, such as squid shreds, dried fish, fish floss, shrimp cakes, dried shrimps, and fish crisps. You can ask if you can try them at the stall and buy your favourite Qijin seafood according to your taste.

Taroko Park is a large shopping centre in Cianjhen District of Kaohsiung City. It combines a shopping mall, cinema, basketball court, fitness centre, and restaurants, where visitors can eat, buy clothes, lodge, and be entertained all in a single trip. It is a good place for Kaohsiung residents to exercise, shop, and have fun. 

Taroko Park covers a large area with a spacious and comfortable shopping environment. You can buy a diversity of fashion items for each of your family members, ranging from famous sports and leisure brands to affordable brands and international boutiques. Taroko Park provides a well-equipped car park, and there are nursing rooms so parents can rest assured their children can be properly cared for while shopping. The softball strike zone, bowling alley, rock climbing gym, and other sports facilities inside the park allow you to exercise while shopping, making your trip more interesting.

Sando Shopping District is an important shopping district in Kaohsiung City and consists of multiple large department stores. It's in the Cianjhen District of Kaohsiung City and centred on Sando Road and Zhongshan Road – conveniently accessible due to its proximity to the Sanduo Shopping District metro station (Red Line), with spacious roads and tall buildings. Sando Shopping District began to rise in the 1990s and includes the branches of Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Department Store, Pacific Department Store, and Mega City Department Store. These have quickly drawn a substantial number of visitors and promoted the development of surrounding business districts, forming a business circle with massive opportunities. 

In addition to large chain department stores, Sando Shopping District also includes many small stores that sell a wide range of goods ranging from popular Japanese and Korean goods to European and American boutiques. At night, the shops and buildings in Sando Shopping District light up with billboards, a bustling and dazzling night scene reminiscent of Manhattan, New York.

Sanfong Central Street in Kaohsiung sells all kinds of dried foods while Dihua Street in Taipei sells goods from the North and South. It's from which the saying, "Dihua Street in the North and Central Street in the South" is derived. Sanfong Central Street has always been a place for Kaohsiung people to buy dried foods at favourable prices, ranging from seafood, high-grade ingredients, and sweets. Many people flock to this street on important festivals, such as the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Ghost Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival. 

Even so, Sanfong Central Street experienced declining business opportunities due to inconvenient parking after the transfer of Kaohsiung's business districts, which put many merchants into a crisis after years of business. Sanfong Central Street saw the reflux of customers and gradually returned to its former glory after the local government's re-planning project to cover the street with roofs and redesign the image and traffic pattern of the business district.

Jiasien District of Kaohsiung City is a simple town famous for its taro. Jiasien's geographical location is very special: it is where Nanheng Highway begins. Passengers driving from Kaohsiung to Taitung stop and rest in Jiasien, buy agricultural products and have meals on the way. A thriving shopping district gradually formed through the trade brought in by a large number of travellers, and the local authorities put down plans to turn it into Jiasien Shopping District. 

Jiasien Shopping District will definitely catch the eyes of visitors with its taro foods sold all along the streets. There are many time-honoured stores selling popular taro mochi, taro ice cream and taro cakes, all made from taro produced in Jiasien. In Jiasien it is recommended that you buy some fresh local taro, as the products from here are of high quality and are well suited for both desserts and salty cuisines.

New Jyuejiang in Kaohsiung and Ximending in Taipei are synonymous with fashion and youth. New Jyuejiang Shopping District is a magnet for young people from Kaohsiung searching for cool and fashionable articles as various imported goods from all over the world are gathered here. The District turns into a bustling and crowded place on weekends and at night. To appeal to young people, New Jyuejiang Shopping District is based on Japanese-style high streets featuring a high concentration of stores that sell various fashionable goods. 

In recent years, New Jyuejiang Shopping District has been under continual renovation, with beautiful tiles placed on the pavements to improve the overall image of the district. New customers are bring attracted and more business opportunities are in the making. Visitors to New Jyuejiang Shopping District are offered a multiple choice of Japanese and Korean fashion. It is interesting enough to just stand on the street, looking at the trendy Kaohsiung youth pass by.