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Siaogang District

Siaogang District is a district of Kaohsiung City in southern Taiwan.

Siaogang District
Siaogang District · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Siaogang District is a district of Kaohsiung City in southern Taiwan. Before the merging of Kaohsiung City and Kaohsiung County in 2010, Siaogang was the southernmost district in Kaohsiung City. The second largest airport in Taiwan, Kaohsiung International Airport, is located in Siaogang.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Siaogang District

6 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.

  1. 01
    Open University of Kaohsiung

    The Open University of Kaohsiung is an open university in Siaogang District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. OUK is an agency of the Kaohsiung City Government.

    2 km · university in Kaohsiung, Taiwan · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kaohsiung Park

    The Kaohsiung Park is a park in Siaogang District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

    2.2 km · park in Xiaogang, Kaohsiung, Taiwan · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism

    The National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism is a public university located in Siaogang District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It is the only public university specializing in hospitality and tourism in Taiwan.

    1.7 km · university in Kaohsiung, Taiwan · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Dapingding Tropical Botanical Garden

    The Dapingding Tropical Botanical Garden is a garden in Siaogang District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan which is used as a museum of tropical plants and a recreational park.

    3.1 km · garden in Kaohsiung · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Linhai Industrial Park

    The Linhai Industrial Park is an industrial park located in Siaogang District and Cianjhen District of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It near the Kaohsiung International Airport, No.

    2.4 km · industrial park in Kaohsiung, Taiwan · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Kaohsiung Astronomical Museum

    The Kaohsiung Astronomical Museum is an astronomical museum in Siaogang District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

    2.8 km · museum in Kaohsiung · Wikipedia

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.

Go there

Getting to Siaogang District

Airports
Kaohsiung (KHH), 3 km · Tainan / Tainan Air Base (TNN), 47 km · Penghu Magong (MZG), 135 km
Stations
Kaohsiung International Airport, 2.7 km · Kaohsiung International Airport MRT station, 2.6 km
  • Tainan (Rende) → Siaogang District
    47 km · quickest by road, 56 min · NT$100–135
  • Huxi → Siaogang District
    736 km · quickest by road, 9h 52m · ¥265–355
  • Taichung (Qingshui) → Siaogang District
    191 km · quickest by road, 3h 10m · NT$425–560
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Siaogang 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 Siaogang District. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Orchid Island (Lanyu)TW

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    134 km
  2. 02
    Kinmen (Quemoy)TW

    10 ways of moving, 12 sources

    292 km
  3. 03
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    406 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    429 km
  5. 05
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    813 km

If you know how people move in Siaogang District – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Siaogang District

Siaogang District is 8 km from Fengshan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.