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  1. 1

    Taipei 101 - The Tower That Sets the Skyline

    Taipei 101 held the title of world's tallest building from 2004 to 2010 at 508 metres, and it still fixes the shape of the Taipei skyline. The observatory spans floors 88 to 91, costs TWD 600 (about EUR 17), and the…

    Address
    No. 7, Section 5, Xinyi Road, Xinyi District, Taipei City 110
    Nearest transit
    Taipei 101/World Trade Center station (Red Line, R03), Exit 4, 2-minute walk through the underground mall link
  2. 2

    Shilin Night Market - The Largest Night Market in Taipei

    Shilin is the biggest night market in Taipei and the one most first-time visitors head straight for. The covered food court sits underground beneath Cixian Temple, while the street stalls sprawl across Dadong Road and…

    Address
    No. 101, Jihe Road, Shilin District, Taipei City 111
    Nearest transit
    Jiantan station (Red Line, R15), Exit 1, 3-minute walk across Jihe Road
  3. 3

    National Palace Museum - The World's Largest Chinese Imperial Collection

    The National Palace Museum holds the largest collection of Chinese imperial artefacts in the world - close to 700,000 pieces, moved out of Beijing's Forbidden City between 1948 and 1949 during the Chinese Civil War…

    Address
    No. 221, Section 2, Zhishan Road, Shilin District, Taipei City 111
    Nearest transit
    Shilin station (Red Line, R16), Exit 1, then bus R30, 255 or 304 for 15 minutes to the museum gate
  4. 4

    Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall - Liberty Square and the Honour Guard

    The white octagonal hall at the head of Liberty Square opened in 1980 and is still the largest single monument in Taipei. Eighty-nine steps climb to the main chamber, one for each year of Chiang Kai-shek's life, and a…

    Address
    No. 21, Zhongshan South Road, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City 100
    Nearest transit
    Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall station (Red Line R08 and Green Line G10), Exit 5, 1-minute walk into the grounds
  5. 5

    Longshan Temple - A Working Temple From 1738

    Longshan Temple was founded in 1738 by settlers from Fujian and has been rebuilt after fire, earthquake and an Allied bombing raid in 1945. This is a working temple rather than a monument: incense smoke, chanting at…

    Address
    No. 211, Guangzhou Street, Wanhua District, Taipei City 108
    Nearest transit
    Longshan Temple station (Blue Line, BL10), Exit 1, 2-minute walk through Mengjia Park
  6. 6

    Elephant Mountain (Xiangshan) Hiking Trail - The Classic Skyline Viewpoint

    The climb up Elephant Mountain is 20 minutes of steep stone steps and it produces the postcard view of Taipei 101 rising out of the city grid. Roughly 600 steps separate the trailhead from the first viewing platform at…

    Address
    Lane 150, Section 5, Xinyi Road, Xinyi District, Taipei City 110 (trailhead beside Xiangshan Park)
    Nearest transit
    Xiangshan station (Red Line, R02), Exit 2, 10-minute walk east to the stone steps
  7. 7

    Beitou Hot Springs - Geothermal Bathing at the Top of the Red Line

    Beitou sits on a geothermal field at the northern end of the Taipei MRT Red Line, and the Japanese built the first bathhouses here in the 1890s. The Millennium Hot Spring public baths charge TWD 60 (about EUR 1.75) for…

    Address
    No. 6, Zhongshan Road, Beitou District, Taipei City 112
    Nearest transit
    Xinbeitou station (Red Line branch, R22A), Exit 1, 8-minute walk uphill through Beitou Park
  8. 8

    Raohe Street Night Market - Pepper Buns and a Straight Line

    Raohe Street runs 600 metres in a straight covered line between two ornamental arches, which makes it far easier to work through than Shilin. The Fuzhou pepper buns at the Songshan Ciyou Temple end are the reason people…

    Address
    No. 145, Raohe Street, Songshan District, Taipei City 105
    Nearest transit
    Songshan station (Green Line, G19), Exit 5, 1-minute walk to the temple-end arch
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    Ximending - The Pedestrian District Taipei Teenagers Own

    Ximending is Taipei's pedestrian shopping district and the closest the city gets to Tokyo's Shibuya. The car-free grid around Hanzhong Street and Emei Street fills from mid-afternoon with students, street performers…

    Address
    No. 50, Xining South Road, Wanhua District, Taipei City 108
    Nearest transit
    Ximen station (Blue Line BL11 and Green Line G12), Exit 6, which opens directly onto the pedestrian zone
  10. 10

    Jiufen - The Lantern-Lit Gold Town Day Trip

    Jiufen is a former gold-mining town stacked up a hillside above the Pacific, and it is the one entry here that needs a full day. Jishan Street is a narrow covered lane of tea houses, taro ball shops and souvenir stalls…

    Address
    No. 8, Jishan Street, Ruifang District, New Taipei City 224
    Nearest transit
    Zhongxiao Fuxing station (Blue Line BL15 and Brown Line BR10), Exit 1, then Keelung Bus 1062 for 75 minutes to Jiufen Old Street; EasyCard accepted on board

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