Tayuman Street

Tayuman Street is a four-lane east-west street in northern Manila, Philippines. It stretches 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) from the old San Lazaro Hippodrome in Santa Cruz to Barrio Pritil in Tondo district. The street is designated as part of Circumferential Road 2.

Tayuman Street
Tayuman Street view from Tayuman LRT Station
Route information
Length	1.6 km (1.0 mi)
Component highways	C-2 C-2 N140
Major junctions
From	Lacson Avenue in Santa Cruz
	Rizal Avenue Abad Santos Avenue
To	Juan Luna Street in Tondo
Location
Major cities	City of Manila
Highway system
Roads in the Philippines Highways Expressways List

Tayuman begins as a continuation of Consuelo Street at an intersection with Lacson Avenue in Santa Cruz district fronting SM City San Lazaro. It crosses Rizal Avenue, passing underneath the Tayuman LRT Station where it continues past the headquarters of the Department of Health into the residential areas of Santa Cruz and Tondo. The street ends at Juan Luna Street near Puregold Tayuman supermarket.

The street was named after tayum, a type of indigo plant.[1] It extends west from Juan Luna Street into Barrio Magsaysay and the Manila North Harbor in Tondo as Capulong Street.

Route description

SM City San Lazaro on Tayuman Street in the San Lazaro Tourism and Business Park

Tayuman Street is designated a national secondary road, wholly with the route number N140. The road has four lanes, with two per direction, are mostly lined with side streets and local businesses.

Numerous establishments line the road, like the Department of Health Central Office, Puregold Tayuman branch, Sentro ng Karunungan Library,[2] Archdiocesan Shrine of Espiritu Santo, Immaculate Conception Parish Church and Tayuman Commercial Center. San Lazaro Tourism and Business Park and SM City San Lazaro, both standing on the former location of the San Lazaro Racetrack, which moved to Carmona, Cavite, lies on the east end of the street. Schools also line the street, like the Andres Bonifacio Elementary School (Tayuman cor Ipil Street), Espiritu Santo Parochial School, Manila Cathedral School, and Rizal Elementary School.

Jeepney Route

Tayuman Street

• Tayuman - Pritil
• Tayuman - Lardizabal
• Blumentritt - Divisoria
• Rivera - Raon

Intersections Jeepney Route

• Gasak - Recto (Oroquieta Street)
• Navotas - Recto (Oroquieta Street)
• MCU - Divisoria (Abad Santos Avenue)
• Malanday - Divisoria (Abad Santos Avenue)
• Malinta - Divisoria (Abad Santos Avenue)

Intersections

Province	City/Municipality	km	mi	Destinations	Notes
Santa Cruz, Manila		8.006	4.975	N140 (A.H. Lacson Avenue), Consuelo Street	SM City San Lazaro
				Pedro Guevarra Street
				Sulu Street
				Felix Huertas Street	Traffic light intersection.
				Manuel Hizon Street
				Oroquieta Road	Traffic light intersection. Espiritu Santo Parochial School
				Maria Natividad Street	Tayuman Commercial Center
				N150 (Rizal Avenue)	Traffic light intersection.
				Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 1 (Tayuman station)
				Anacleto Street	Department of Health
				Tomas Mapua Street
				Makata Street
				Severino Reyes Street
				Kusang Loob Street	Land Transportation Office
				Ipil Street	Andres Bonifacio Elementary School
				E.Manalo Street (Formerly known as Apitong Street)	Iglesia ni Cristo Congregation
				Dapdap Street
Tondo, Manila				Yakal St. (Riverside)	Estero de San Lazaro
		1.050	0.652	Almeda Street
				N151 (Abad Santos Avenue)	Traffic light intersection
				Antonio Rivera Street	Novo Department Store
				Katamanan Street	Immaculate Conception Parish Church, Missionaries of Charity of Joy
				Imaculada Street	Missionaries of Charity of Joy, TESDA, Manila Cathedral School
				Railroad crossing with PNR Metro South Commuter Line
				Dagupan Extension
				G. Perfecto Street
				Perfecto Street
				Prudencia Street
		6.416	3.987	Juan Luna Street	Puregold Tayuman, Traffic light intersection. Road continues west as Capulong Street
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

See also

• Major roads in Manila

References

1. Did you know? Tayuman Street Archived 2015-06-11 at the Wayback Machine published by the Philippine Daily Inquirer; accessed 2013-10-08.
2. Sentro ng Karunungan (Tondo Congressional) Library published by NLP.gov.ph; accessed 2013-10-08.