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Zhongzheng District

Zhongzheng District is a district in Taipei, Taiwan.

Zhongzheng District
Zhongzheng District · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Zhongzheng District is a district in Taipei, Taiwan. Taipei Main Station is located in the district. It is home to most of the national government buildings of Taiwan.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Zhongzheng District

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.

  1. 01
    National Taiwan University

    National Taiwan University is a national research university in Taipei, Taiwan. Founded in 1928 during Japanese rule as Taihoku Imperial University, it was the seventh Imperial University of the Empire of Japan and is the oldest university in the country.

    2.8 km · national university located in Taipei, Taiwan · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall

    The Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall is a national monument and tourist attraction erected during Taiwan’s martial law period in memory of Chiang Kai-shek, former President of the Republic of China. In recent years, the site has also incorporated remembrance of Taiwan’s martial law period.

    600 m · memorial hall in Taipei · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Taipei Grand Mosque

    The Taipei Grand Mosque, abbreviated as TGM, and also known as the Taipei Zheng He Mosque is a mosque located in the Da'an District of Taipei City, in Taiwan. It is the largest and oldest mosque in Taiwan and its most important Islamic structure.

    1.8 km · mosque in Da'an, Taipei, Taiwan · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    National Taiwan Normal University

    National Taiwan Normal University is a national public research university with its main campus in Taipei, Taiwan. Founded in 1922 during Japanese rule as the Taihoku Higher School, it was the first teachers' college in Taiwan.

    1.3 km · national university in Taipei, Taiwan · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Shin Kong Life Tower

    Shin Kong Life Tower, at 51 stories and a height of 245 meters, is one of Taiwan's earliest skyscrapers. The rose-colored tower topped by a pyramid stands in Zhongzheng District, Taipei, and dates from 1993.

    1.6 km · skyscraper in Taipei, Taiwan · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Ximending

    Ximending is a neighborhood and shopping district in the Wanhua District of Taipei, Taiwan. The Ximending Pedestrian Area was the first pedestrian zone constructed in Taipei and remains the largest in Taiwan.

    1.5 km · shopping district in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Bangka Lungshan Temple

    Bangka Lungshan Temple is a Taiwanese folk temple in Wanhua District, Taipei, Taiwan. The temple was built in Taipei in 1738 by settlers from Fujian during Qing rule in honor of Guanyin.

    1.8 km · Guanyin temple in Wanhua, Taipei, Taiwan · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    National Taipei University of Technology

    National Taipei University of Technology is a public university in Taipei, Taiwan. It is a member of the Global Research & Industry Alliance of the Ministry of Science and Technology and accredited by AACSB. Located in the Daan district of Taipei, the school was established in 1912 as the School of Industrial Instruction, one of the earliest intermediate-higher educational institutions in Taiwan.

    2.3 km · public university in Taipei, Taiwan · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    National Taiwan Library

    The National Taiwan Library is a library in Zhonghe District, New Taipei, Taiwan. It is the oldest public library in Taiwan.

    3.2 km · public library in Zhonghe, New Taipei, Taiwan · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    National Taiwan Museum

    The National Taiwan Museum, established in 1908, is the oldest museum in Taiwan. It was founded by the colonial government during Taiwan's period of Japanese rule.

    1.2 km · national museum in Taipei · 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 Zhongzheng District

Airports
Taipei Songshan (TSA), 5 km · Taiwan Taoyuan (TPE), 29 km · Hualien Chiashan (HUN), 113 km
Stations
Taipei Main Station, 1.8 km · Zhongshan Station, 2.4 km · Daan Station, 2.7 km · Dongmen Station, 1.3 km · Ximen Station, 1.5 km
  • Hualien City → Zhongzheng District
    117 km · quickest by road, 3h 53m · NT$320–425
  • Taichung (Qingshui) → Zhongzheng District
    129 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · NT$300–400
  • Huxi → Zhongzheng District
    248 km · quickest by air, 3h 35m · NT$1,680–2,610
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Not yet researched

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Taipei, 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
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    203 km
  2. 02
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    271 km
  3. 03
    Kinmen (Quemoy)TW

    10 ways of moving, 12 sources

    324 km
  4. 04
    Orchid Island (Lanyu)TW

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    332 km
  5. 05
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    595 km

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

Around it

Next door to Zhongzheng District

Zhongzheng District is 3 km from Taipei, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.