Dongdamen Night Market
# Dongdamen Night Market

The Dongdamen Night Market or Dongdaemun Night Market (traditional Chinese: 東大門夜市; simplified Chinese: 东大门夜市; pinyin: Dōngdàmén Yèshì) is a night market in Hualien City, Hualien County, Taiwan. It is the largest night market in the county.

## Name

Dongdamen means big east gate in English due to its location at the eastern edge of Hualien City.

## History

The area where the night market stands today used to be the area of the old train station. The night market was opened in July 2015. On 3 June 2019, the night market was engulfed in flame, which started about 1 a.m. The fire damaged 660 $m^2$ area of the night market and burned down 32 stalls.

## Architecture

The night market was constructed as part of the 6th rezoning area. It spreads over an area of 9 hectares and consists of Futing Night Market (Chinese: 福町夜市) for Taiwanese cuisine, street of Taiwanese aborigines cuisine (Chinese: 原住民一條街), Zhiqiang Night Market (Chinese: 自強夜市) and street of Mainland China cuisine (Chinese: 各省一條街). The night market also features a center plaza, tourist information center, an ecology pond and a lookout tower.

## Business

Currently there are 400 vendors operating at the night market.

## Transportation

The night market is accessible by bus from Hualien Station of Taiwan Railways.

