Section 1 of Xiulang Road(Chinese: 秀朗路一段)is located in Yonghe District(Chinese: 永和區) of New Taipei City, it has many art supplies shop along the street, everytime Choumeizai comes to Taiwan, this art street is a must visit place for shopping.
Many art supplies shops open here due to Fu-Hsin Trade & Arts School(Chinese: 新北市私立復興高級商工職業學校), this school is the most famous art school in Taiwan, the wall of the school displays several paintings of their students, you can take a look before shopping.
The art supplies here are complete, good quality but at a cheap price, the local products of Taiwan are cheap without any question, even though the watercolor imported from Japan are cheaper than those being sold in Japan.
At the end of the street, there is a shop which is proclaimed as the biggest art supplies shop in Taiwan, the shop is stuffed with countless products and looks like a big supermarket.
Most of their products are made in Taiwan, the price of pastel paper is only one-fourth of the price in Hong Kong.
Section 1 of Xiulang Road is a bit far from the Taipei Metro station, if you take Taipei Metro, you can get down at Yongan Market Station(Chinese: 永安市場), then walk around 15 minutes to get there.
