Had a short trip to Jiu Fen on a beautiful Saturday, 9/11 with my dear ... 

Took a train as usual from 龜山車站 (Gui Shan) to 瑞芳車站 (Rui Fang). You need to take a bus up and it is available up ahead and across the street because it's a weekend. So there is no bus available infront of the station (Try to ask around if you are unsure. People over there are friendly and helpful ^^)

I always hear my friends who went Taiwan talking about how nice is Jiu Fen, but I had never been to Jiu Fen nor Taiwan at that point. Thus, didn't know that there was a history behind the name~ Sounds cool. So... 九份 (Jiu Fen) is actually an old street, that housed 9 different families during the first years of the Qing dynasty. And because they wanna have 9 portions everytime a shipment arrived, it eventually became the name of this small village. 

In fact, it was really kind of a small shopping area and I finish the area within an hour. Maybe partly coz we did not stop to eat and what's more is that its a weekend, the place was flooded with people! Can you see? the whole stretch was filled with people.. 

saw this shop with all the cute stuffs... hehe... wanted to buy many of these back but on second thought, I decided not to, because I will end up keeping all the cute boxes if I never give anyone.  

Final round to the back which we did not pass by, before we head down to catch the bus.
A feel of "theatre" or "opera" concept... Seems like we are being brought back to the older days... 





decided to go Luodong Night Market but then just by waiting for the bus down to Ruifang station is a killer. left at our 4 or 4plus when it is still consider a bright day... and see what happen...
it became dark and we were still at Jiu Fen! Reason: all the buses are full and we cannot even board + everyone was just squeezing and crowding around, which makes it even harder for us to see the line.  

Ended up telling dear that we should take the bus up to the last stop, which was just one stop away because we will never be able to board the bus with this crowd. Imagine waiting and walking around, thinking the earlier stop will be less crowded... obviously we are wrong... spent our time waiting for a bus and we were only back at Ruifang station close to 7pm?

*Stupid Me~ should have tot of taking the bus to the last stop and back down, since everyone is waiting at the so call "Jiu Fen" main bus stop.