Kantou

Kantou is a hamlet in Hengshan Village, Hengshan Township, Taiwan. Kantou is situated nearby to the hamlet Xiawanzi, as well as near Xinzhuangzi.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hengshan and Tongtex Secondary High School.

Hengshan

Railway stop

Photo: SElefant, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Hengshan railway station is a railway station located in Hengshan, Hsinchu County, Taiwan. It is located on the Neiwan line and is operated by Taiwan Railway.

Tongtex Secondary High School

School

Photo: Yuriy kosygin, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Zhudong

Railway station

Photo: SElefant, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Zhudong railway station is a railway station located in Zhudong Township, Hsinchu County, Taiwan. It is located on the Neiwan line and is operated by the Taiwan Railway. Zhudong is situated 3 km northwest of Kantou.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zhudong and Hengshan.

Zhudong

Photo: Yuriy kosygin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Zhudong is a township of 96,000 people near Hsinchu City in Taiwan. It's quite a dingy run-down place, but has a nice view of the mountains and a friendly Taiwanese feel.

Hengshan

Town

Photo: Yuriy kosygin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Hengshan Township is a rural township in Hsinchu County, Taiwan. It had an estimated population of 12,208 as of March 2023. Hengshan is situated 3½ km east of Kantou.

Beipu

Photo: Yuriy kosygin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Beipu Township is a rural township in Hsinchu County, Taiwan. Beipu is well known in Taiwan as a center of Hakka culture, especially for production of dongfang meiren tea and its special Hakkanese blends of tea and nuts called lei cha.

Kantou

Type: Hamlet
Also known as: “K’an-t’ou”
Category: locality
Location: Hengshan Village, Hengshan Township, Hsinchu County, Taiwan, Northern Taiwan, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude

24.71611° or 24° 42′ 58″ north

Longitude

121.10722° or 121° 6′ 26″ east

Elevation

158 metres (518 feet)

Open location code

7QP3P484+CV

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4050165351

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

6640622

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In Other Languages

“Kantou” goes by many names.

Chinese: “崁頭”

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