Record stores in Taichung

Taichung, Taichung has 9 record stores on the map. That's 9 record shops mapped around Taichung. Every shop grades and prices differently, so the same record can be a bargain in one and a splurge in another — dig everywhere. Bring a want-list, but leave room for the find you didn't know you needed.

This guide covers every record store we could verify in and around Taichung (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include 萊爾費可唱片行 and 宗翰陶笛工作室, plus 集樂軒. If a record shop's missing from Taichung's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Taichung record lineup

9 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about record stores in Taichung

2 of the 9 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — record shops keep shop hours, so the listed times are usually reliable.

2 have websites listed. Worth a look for new-arrival posts and want-list services.

The Taichung record crawl

Plot these on a map and the day plans itself: 萊爾費可唱片行, 宗翰陶笛工作室 on 172 員鹿路三段, 集樂軒, 亞藝影音, 未來音樂, San-yo String Center, 金典樂器, and Five Music on 136之1號 三民路三段. That's 9 stops on the Taichung record crawl. 1 more are listed below.

Record digging tips for Taichung

Digging in Taichung? A few habits pay off:

• Check the dead wax at 萊爾費可唱片行. The runout groove holds matrix numbers that identify pressings. Collectors live by these; a quick phone search settles it.
• Genre-hop at 宗翰陶笛工作室. The best finds are in the sections you don't know. Jazz collectors find gold in the classical bins and vice versa.
• Ask to play it. Good shops have turntables for exactly this. If they won't let you listen, that's information too.
• Note the shop's specialties. Every shop leans somewhere — soul, punk, jazz, classical. Find the lean that matches yours, then dig the others anyway.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Taichung — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new record store in Taichung can take a while to appear. The 9 above are only as current as the community map. A record store that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

We don't list prices or stock — both change by the day. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 9 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.