Yungkang Street's cultural ambience is the result of a combination of factors. It is near two universities (National Taiwan Normal University and National Taiwan University) and during the Japanese occupation and the early years of the Nationalist government, this area housed government workers.
永康街有人文氣息，這和它曾為日治時代及國府早期的公家宿舍區，並鄰近台、師大所謂的「溫羅町」（以溫州路、羅斯福路為主的地帶）區域有關。