Taichung
Taichung, officially Taichung City, is a special municipality in central Taiwan.
Taichung is Taiwan's second-largest city, with more than 2.86 million residents, making it the largest city in Central Taiwan. It serves as the core of the Taichung–Changhua metropolitan area, Taiwan's second-largest metropolitan area.
Getting to Taichung
- 01Taichung International Airport
- 02Taichung Ubus
- 03High Speed Rail
- 04Taichung Train Station
Worth seeing
Wufeng Lin Family Mansion and Garden in Datun is the former residence and grounds of the Wufeng Lin Family. Taichung Winery. Dating back to the Japanese era, this still-operational winery also includes a wine museum, which has displays on wine-making and the history of the winery.
Things to do
Gu-Guan Hot Spring is a nice hot spring at Mountain Line. The Parkway is a narrow corridor of greenery in Central Taichung forms a pleasant parkway which runs south/north between the Museum of Fine Arts and the National Museum of Natural Science, intersected by the main Taizhonggang Rd. You can spend minutes or hours walking along it, or relax in one of the parks.
Where to eat
With a proliferation of noodle shops and street vendors peddling anything from the exotic to common household dishes, there is no lack of choice for enjoying local delicacies. Walking through the streets of Taichung, one can locate exotic cuisines like Indian, Japanese, Indonesian, and continental.
Getting around Taichung the local way
- Get inThe Cosco Star ferry runs overnight between Taichung and Xiamen on the Chinese mainland.
- Get inCSF operates fast ferries (about 3 hours) from Pingtan in mainland China to Taichung.
From Wikivoyage: Taichung, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.
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