Taipei
Taipei, officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of Taiwan.
Taipei, officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of Taiwan. Located in Northern Taiwan, Taipei City is an enclave of the municipality of New Taipei City that sits about 25 kilometres (16 mi) southwest of the northern port city of Keelung. Most of the city rests on the Taipei Basin, an ancient lakebed. The basin is bounded by the relatively narrow valleys of the Keelung and Xindian rivers, which join to form the Tamsui River along the city's western border.
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Worth seeing in and around Taipei
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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- 02National Palace Museum
Ancient Chinese imperial artifacts and artworks museum in Taipei, Taiwan
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What Wikivoyage says to see
Those who take the time to visit and look around will soon find that Taipei is just as vibrant as any other major city, and is full of a certain charm which makes it unique in its own right. Just spend a day wandering around Taipei's streets and you will start finding many surprises.
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Things to do
Hot springs (溫泉) come in various brands in Taipei, ranging from basic natural pools, to plush spas at five star hotels. The three main places to have a soak in the Greater Taipei area are: Beitou (北投), Wulai (烏來) and Yangmingshan National Park (陽明山). The basic free 'rub and scrub' type public baths are run by the city.
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Where to eat
Taipei is a foodie's paradise. Almost every street and alley offers some kind of eatery. Although Taiwanese cuisine is primarily based on the cuisine of southern Fujian, the huge influx of Kuomintang refugees from mainland China after losing the Chinese Civil War means that Taipei is also one of the best places in the world to sample regional cuisines from all over China, with many of these also having been given a…
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Getting to Taipei
- Airports
- Taipei Songshan (TSA), 3 km · Taiwan Taoyuan (TPE), 33 km · Hualien Chiashan (HUN), 113 km
- Stations
- Taipei Songshan Airport, 3.7 km · Taipei Main Station, 4.7 km · Zhongshan Station, 4.6 km · Songshan station, 2 km · Daan Station, 2 km
- Hualien City → Taipei118 km · quickest by road, 3h 53m · NT$320–425
- Taichung (Qingshui) → Taipei131 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · NT$310–410
- Huxi → Taipei472 km · quickest by air, 8h 29m · ¥800–1,230
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Taipei
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Taipei. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inCSF operates fast ferries (about 3 hr) from Pingtan in mainland China to Taipei (actually Bali District in New Taipei) and back.
- Get aroundAlternatively, the Taipei Pass costs NT$250 (no deposit) and covers travel on the metro and Maokong Gondola for one day, which is cheap and convenient if you take at least six trips.
- Go nextTaiwan's excellent rail system makes day trips easy, and there's lots to see around the New Taipei and Keelung.
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Next door to Taipei
Taipei is 10 km from Banqiao, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Xinyi DistrictA district in Taipei City, Taiwan1.2 km
- Shilin DistrictA district in Taipei City, Taiwan6.9 km
- Sanchong DistrictA district in New Taipei City, Taiwan7.4 km
- Zhonghe Districtdistrict in New Taipei City, Taiwan7.4 km
- Neihu Districtdistrict in Taipei5.5 km
- Yonghe DistrictA district in New Taipei City, Taiwan5.7 km