Cijin District
Cijin District is a district of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, covering Cijin Island (旗津島) and islands in the South China Sea.
Cijin District is a district of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, covering Cijin Island (旗津島) and islands in the South China Sea. It is the second smallest district in Kaohsiung City after Yancheng District, with an area of 1.4639 square kilometers, or 0.5652 square miles. It has a population of 26,282 as of October 2023, making it the 26th most populated district in Kaohsiung, with a population density of 18,414 people per square kilometer, or 47,692 people per square mile.
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Worth seeing in and around Cijin District
4 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.
- 01Dream Mall
Dream Mall, located in Cianjhen District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, is the largest shopping mall in Taiwan and the 15th largest in East Asia. It is built and operated by Tungcheng Development Corporation, a subsidiary of Uni-President Enterprises Corporation, Taiwan's largest food conglomerate that also runs subsidiaries in many other industries.
3.7 km · shopping mall in Kaohsiung · Wikipedia - 02Taroko Park
The SKM Park is an amusement park and outlet in Cianjhen District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It is owned by Shin Kong Mitsukoshi.
3.4 km · shopping mall and amusement park in Kaohsiung · Wikipedia - 03YM Museum of Marine Exploration Kaohsiung
The YM Museum of Marine Exploration Kaohsiung is a museum about marine exploration in Cijin District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
3.7 km · museum in Kaohsiung · Wikipedia - 04Kaohsiung Astronomical Museum
The Kaohsiung Astronomical Museum is an astronomical museum in Siaogang District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
3.2 km · museum in Kaohsiung · Wikipedia
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Getting to Cijin District
- Airports
- Kaohsiung (KHH), 5 km · Tainan / Tainan Air Base (TNN), 44 km · Penghu Magong (MZG), 132 km
- Stations
- Kaohsiung International Airport MRT station, 3.7 km · Cianjhen Star LRT station, 3.9 km · Caoya Station, 3.1 km · Cianjhen Senior High School Station, 3.3 km · Kaisyuan Jhonghua Station, 3.6 km
- Tainan (Rende) → Cijin District40 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · NT$115–155
- Huxi → Cijin District731 km · quickest by road, 9h 52m · ¥265–355
- Taichung (Qingshui) → Cijin District187 km · quickest by road, 3h 25m · NT$440–590
- 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 Cijin District
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 Cijin District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundHowever, it is not yet legally possible to bicycle to and from Cijin as the underwater Kaohsiung Harbor Tunnel to and from Cianjhen District is officially closed to bicycles around the clock, even during late nights when ferries stop running.
- Get aroundAn inexpensive ferry service connects various areas of Kaohsiung City, including Taiwan's nearest island, Xiao Liuqiu () - Little Ryukyu - which is a coral island located just south of Kaohsiung and is reachable by ferry from Dong Gang (), which is only a 15-minute scooter or taxi ride from Kaohsiung International Airport.
- Get around31 at the Zhuo Iing Bus Station to the Ferry Pier.
- Get aroundOr, you may take a ferry: Gushan ferry terminal (from which one can take the ferry to Cijin island) is an easy 10 min walk from Hamasen MRT station (you may have to ask for directions though as the route is not that straightforward, but signboards are pretty clear nowadays)
From Wikivoyage: Kaohsiung, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Cijin District
Cijin District is 6 km from Kaohsiung, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Caoya, Kaohsiungvillage in Kaohsiung, Taiwan2.8 km
- Cijin Islandisland in Cijin District, Taiwan3.4 km