Get to know Toufen City
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- Administrative area
- County-administered city · 市
- Part of
- Miaoli County
- Chinese name
- 頭份市
- Local areas
- County-administered city guide
Area & population
- Area in the source
- 53.32 km²
Source: cited geographic source, as of the dates shown.
Settlement on the plain
Taokas (道卡斯族) people lived here before Han settlement and cultivation began during the Qing dynasty. Pantao neighbourhood (蟠桃里), formerly called Fanpozhuang (番婆莊), preserves a place name associated with that earlier Indigenous presence. Agriculture and industry both developed on the broad river plain.
Luzhunan’s brick courtyards
Luzhunan Old Houses (蘆竹湳古厝) form a traditional farming settlement with more than 300 years of history. More than fifty surviving sanheyuan courtyards make its red brick lanes a maze of older homes. Community activities include handmade paper, cyanotype photographs, bamboo deer weaving and rice foods, alongside traditional games, hand-cranked shaved ice and puffed-rice demonstrations.
Sources for this guide
頭份市>苗栗文化觀光旅遊網 · Miaoli County Culture and Tourism Bureau
蘆竹湳古厝>苗栗文化觀光旅遊網 · Miaoli County Culture and Tourism Bureau
Original English written from the listed sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer. Updated 2026-09-27.
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Toufen City 頭份市
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Getting there
Toufen City is about 15 km in a straight line from central Miaoli County. Search for 頭份市 in a map app to find stations and your accommodation.
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Sources & geographic information
Administrative names and parent areas: Official geographic directory · Reference date 2026-09-06.
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