If you open a map of Taipei you will see the plan is for streets to run east and west, north and south. But Chitung St., formerly "San-itabashi St.," runs northeastward through the checkerboard pattern of the city center's streets.
翻開台北市的地圖，街道的規劃採東西、南北座向，然而舊稱「三板橋街」的齊東街，卻在棋盤方格狀的台北市中心往東北斜切而過。