Three days in Tainan, southern Taiwan doing sightseeing and goofing around. Fun Times!
02:05 Tainan Judicial Museum 台南司法博物館
05:10 Little Secret restaurant 小覓秘麵食所
05:40 Blueprint Culture and Creative Park 藍晒圖文創園區
06:50 Old Taiwan Magistrate Residence 台南知事官邸
07:50 The Place Tainan 台南老爺
09:30 Lin Mo-Niang Park 林默娘公園
10:15 Eternal Golden Castle 億載金城
11:45 Yuguang Island 漁光島
13:15 Taijiang National Park Visitor Center 台江國家公園遊客中心
14:30 Anping Tree House 安平樹屋
15:55 Anping Fort 安平古堡
16:50 Chou’s Spring Rolls 周氏蝦捲
17:30 Jingzaijiao Tile-paved Salt Fields 井仔腳瓦盤鹽田
18:00 Vanaheim 愛莊園
24:35 Anping Canal Cruise 安平運河
29:05 Zhu Xin Ju restaurant 筑馨居
30:30 Duiyue Gate 兌悅門
30:50 Cloudy Mountain Tea Shop 雲澗茶小賣所
31:20 Fox Café 狐狸小屋
32:25 Zhengxing Street 正興街
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Tainan Judicial Museum
The Tainan Judicial Museum (No. 307, Sec. 1, Fuqian Rd., West Central Dist.; judicial.gov.tw/museum/; Chinese) complex, inaugurated as the Taiwan District Court in 1914, is considered one of Taiwan’s three supreme Japanese-era works of architecture.
Blueprint Culture and Creative Park
This is a narrow-lane complex of renovated simple, cement-walled dormitories originally built by the Japanese to house judicial-authority employees. The dorm buildings are today home to an attractive cluster of artisanal outlets and creative eateries.
Little Secret
The “hidden-away” Little Secret (No. 17, Ln. 689, Sec. 1, Ximen Rd., South Dist.; facebook.com/littlesecret17) restaurant is the go-to foodie haunt here. The emphasis is on bringing cultural-creative flourishes to familiar Taiwanese noodle classics, each dish celebrating a regional icon ingredient.
Old Taiwan Magistrate Residence
The Old Taiwan Magistrate Residence (No. 1, Weimin Street, East Dist.; otmr.com.tw), built in 1900, was used as a residence by visiting Japanese royals, most notably the future Emperor Hirohito during his 1923 grand Taiwan inspection.
The Place Tainan
This new boutique hotel is situated at one end of a monstrous block-style retail/entertainment/leisure complex. The contemporary-décor hotel has minimalist-theme guestrooms with strong black and white schemes. hotelroyal.com.tw/tainan
Lin Mo-Niang Park
Overlooking the south side of Anping Harbor is a giant 16m-high hilltop statue of Lin Mo-Niang located in the breezy Lin Mo-Niang Park. Lin was the young mortal maiden who became the immortal Mazu, Goddess of the Sea, protector of seafarers.
Eternal Golden Castle
This “castle,” actually a fort (No. 3, Guangzhou Rd., Anping Dist.), was built by the Chinese in the 1870s as protection against grasping colonial powers. Massive bastions are found at the ends of the four high, thick walls, with a moat making enemy access even more difficult.
Taijiang National Park Visitor Center
Taijiang National Park (tjnp.gov.tw) is a watery world of estuaries, sandbars, tidal flats, old irrigation canals and small-craft shipping channels, mangrove swamps, wetlands, and aquaculture farms. The white-walled buildings of the visitor complex, built on stilts above retired fish farms, resemble traditional fishermen dwellings and circle a faux “lagoon.”
Anping Fort
This stronghold, originally called Fort Zeelandia, was built at the north-end head of a great sometimes sandbar/sometimes silt island (at high tide) that jutted out from the mainland.
Anping Tree House
Old Tait & Company Merchant House (No. 108, Gubao St., Anping Dist.) and, directly behind, the Anping Tree House, were both built by a British trading firm after the Second Opium War forced China to open ports to Western trade in 1858. The treehouse, originally conjoined warehouses, has been completely overrun by massive banyan trees, creating a fairytale maze.
Chou’s Shrimp Rolls
This restaurant (No. 125 Anping Street, Anping Dist.) is one of the best restaurants in Anping serving shrimp rolls, a local the delicacy.
Jingzaijiao Tile-paved Salt Fields
Just south of the fishing village of Beimen are the Jingzaijiao Tile-paved Salt Fields, Taiwan’s oldest salt fields, created in 1818. This site is a showcase example of how the bottom of evaporation ponds were paved with pottery shards, producing cleaner salt and making harvesting easier.
Taipei Main Station Ultimate Guide-Taipei, Taiwan
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Taipei Main Station can be extremely confusing to anyone including long time residents. I've tried to keep instructions on how to navigate the huge complex simple and if you follow the advice I give, mainly just using the signs above you for directions you shouldn't have too much difficulty getting around. I focused on the Taipei Main Station building where you'll find places to eat, shop, buy train tickets, the Airport MRT, the bus station located at the East Side of the main building, and the other MRT lines. If you are wanting to travel by bus to other parts of Taiwan including the Eastcoast, Central, and Southern Taiwan, then you'll need to go to Q Square where buses serve these regions of the island.
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If you want to go shopping and stay warm in the winter and cool in the summer, head to the Taipei Main Station Underground Market! Centrally located, you can find all kinds of products there, from jade watches to umbrellas to electronics to suitcases and hairbrushes!
To go, take the subway on the red (XinYi) or blue (Bannan) lines to the center of Taiwan transportation. Follow the signs to any of the multitude of stalls and small shops there!
One of the benefits of buying from this area is that you can be assured of the quality of whatever you're buying. If you pay a lot - unless it's jade - you can expect it to last a long while. If you do buy jade, it's best if you know a little bit about telling between valuable and cheap jade.
Another tip: Don't forget to haggle! While many of the products you see will have a set price written, many of them do not. Products that have a set price may be discounted if you buy multiples or reach a certain threshold of spending. Things that don't have a displayed price are more likely to be discounted! Try naming a price about 30% of what the shopkeeper says and take the haggling from there.
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⛴{Trip} Taiwan Travel -- KEELUNG 1-Day Trip/基隆 一日遊
On this short trip, we visited a few places in Keelung and had lunch at a dubious restaurant. :)
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Badouzi 八斗子
Baimiwong Fort 白米甕炮臺
Heping Island Park 和平島公園
Keelung 基隆
Keelung Harbor 基隆港
Wangyou Valley 望幽谷
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Wangyou Valley
The sun is blazing as we arrive at a trail in eastern Keelung that will take us down a hill into Wangyou Valley – a rare sight in what is known as Taiwan’s rainy city. Slowly we descend the steps. Coastal plants cover the edges of the trail, their leaves thick and waxy to retain moisture in the salty sea air. Purple-headed thistles spring up among other wildflowers. White trumpet-nosed blooms cling to the steep cliffs. Bulbuls, white-eyes, babblers, and thrushes duck and weave among the dense thickets. Serpent eagles and goshawks soar above a coast that has been ravaged year after year, century after century by typhoons, monsoon rains, and crashing waves.
Peppered, too, amongst the hills are remnants of Keelung’s military past: pillbox guard posts and fortified lookouts peep from the undergrowth, fighting a losing battle against Mother Nature. After climbing to the top of one of the valley’s several peaks, we see the small fishing harbor of Badouzi on the left beyond, while ahead of us stretches the wide expanse of the East China Sea.
Heping Island
To the northwest of Wangyou Valley lies Heping Island. In 1626, the Spanish arrived on this island, declared it Spanish territory, and built a fortification – Fort San Salvador – on the southwestern side. The fort and any traces of the Spanish on Heping Island have, unfortunately, been largely lost to history, but a small snapshot of the island’s colonial years can be seen in the geo park on its northern side. Much like at nearby Yeliu (with its famous Queen’s Head Rock), the main attractions in the park are the divertingly shaped sandstone rocks along the sea’s edge.
Follow the path around the park and you’ll come across the Cave of Foreign Words, a 20-meter-long natural tunnel that pierces a small headland near the eastern edge of the park. Inside the cave there is, purportedly, some 17th-century graffiti left by the Dutch, who took over Fort San Salvador in the 1640s.
Baimiweng Fort
One of several old fortifications perched upon the hilltops around Keelung, Baimiweng commands a spectacular view of both the harbor and the sea. The small, winding lane that leads to the fort is a bit difficult to find, even for Keelungers, says Wang, who, with a painter’s romantic eye, goes on to compare the challenging ascent up the narrow, twisting road to the journey up to the citadel of Évora Monte in Portugal. Reaching the fortifications, you’re confronted with a spectacular vista and four large semi-circular gun emplacements, each of which was capable in its time of hosting a 5.65-meter-long cannon able to fire a steel shell 8.8 kilometers at enemy battleships. Though the current fortifications date back only to the early 1900s, Wang writes that fortifications have been built on this location since the 17th-century colonial conflicts between the Spanish and the Dutch, a fact attested by the fort’s alternate name, Holland Castle. “From here the night view of the harbor is breathtaking,” Wang writes, “and on the other side, far out to sea, you can see freighters slowly entering the harbor, while further away still you can see the sun setting.”
Central Keelung & Harbor
As a busy, working container port, central Keelung is a churning organism of cranes and freight containers, trundling cargo ships and busy-bee tugboats. The narrow streets and alleys that creep out from the narrow central harbor can become, especially on weekends, breathtakingly crowded – a situation abetted by the fact that the nearby Miaokou Night Market is one of the most famous in Taiwan.
Art Thomya, a Thai singer/songwriter, will show you the modern capital city of Taiwan, TAIPEI. Art was accompanied by his local friends, who are eager to show you the charms of their hometowns. Let's take this journey together!
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Places Featured in This Episode :
#1 Taoyuan International Airport
#2 Taipei Station
#3 Ximending
#4 Taipei Old North Gate (Beimen)
#5 Taipei Futai Street Mansion
#6 Cinema Street
#6 American Street
#7 Lungshan Temple
#8 Wonstar Hotel
#9 Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall
#10 Ximending Shopping District
#11 Huaxi Street Night Market
#12 Guangzhou Street Night Market
#13 Shilin Night Market
#14 Taipei 101
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1-Mile Mall! Shopping In Taipei Main Station Underground Mall
FPS: Episode 02
This is a long video! In this video I try to set it up as a FPS Games, that's right...a First Person Shopper!
This is a complete walk around Taipei City Mall, an underground mall located under Taipei Main Station. Come along for the adventure and let me know what you think in the comments!
Have you been to this mall? Do you prefer shopping in other places in Taipei?
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Table of Contents
Location and Hours
Getting To The Taipei Underground Mall From Taipei Main Station Terminal
Getting To The Taipei Station Underground Mall From Beimen Station
Taipei City Main Station Underground Mall Connections
A Massive Shopping Area In Taipei
Cheap Shopping in Taipei: Negotiating and Quality Issues
Purchasing A Phone Cable
Buying Apparel
Buying Umbrellas: Cheap Shopping in Taipei!
Taipei Souvenirs: Shopping at Taipei Metro Mall
Buying Everything in This Taipei Shopping District
Anime and Otaku Stuff: Taipei Central Station West Side
Crane Games in Taipei Main Underground Shopping Street
Maid Cafes In This Underground Taipei Shopping Mall
Ice Cream Shops In The Underground Mall Taipei
Frozen Yogurt Ice Cream
Duroyal Ice Cream
Meiji Ice Cream
Restaurants In The Taipei Station Underground Mall
Cafes In Taipei Main Station Mall
Play Video Games For Free in This Underground Mall Taipei
Arcade Games for only $10 NTD
DVD’s, CD’s and VCD’s! Remember them?
Taiwan Massage In Taipei Shopping Places
Taiwan Massage Prices
Taiwan Fortune Tellers: Shopping In Taipei City Mall
Rice Reading
Bird and the cards
Turtle Shell and the 3 Ancient Coins
Math Based Taiwan Fortune Telling
Two Half Moons At Any Temple
Caricature Artist At Taipei Metro Mall
Live Performances At This Taipei
Post Office In Taipei Main Station Underground Mall
Hair Cuts In Taipei
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In Taipei Main Station Underground Mall, officially known as Taipei City Mall, you can find 1-mile of Taipei shopping places. Extending from Taipei Main Station to Beimen station at 0.5 miles (850m) so if you take a lap through the mall it’s 1-mile (1700m) of cheap shopping in Taipei.
taipei metro mall
In this Taipei shopping mall, you can find almost anything:
Arcades
Crane Games
Capsule Toy Machines
Anime: Toys, Figures, Media, Apparel
Massages: Regular massages and knife massages (get chopped!)
Electronics: movies, video games, consoles, drones, phones, accessories
Video game stations: Several places just to stop and play video games for free
Ice Cream Shops
Clothing
Souvenirs
Random things to shop in Taipei: Umbrellas, water bottles, household utensils, fans
Restaurants
Cafes (Regular cafes and maid cafes)
Fortune Telling
Caricature Artists
Live Performances
If you’ve been looking for where to shop in Taipei, this Taipei shopping mall will satisfy your shopping needs! Not only is this one of the good shopping places in Taipei, it’s also the cheapest. Making this one of the places to visit in Taipei for all your shopping desires.
taipei main station underground mall
Visual map of the Taipei Main Station underground mall
Location and Hours
Location: 100, Taipei City, Zhongzheng District, Section 1, Shimin Boulevard, 100號
Hours: 11AM-9:30PM Daily
Taipei Main Station Underground Mall runs from Taipei Main Station to Beimen Station. It’s accessible from the street level along Zhengzhou Road (26 entrances/exits), Taipei Main Station, Beimen Station and the airport MRT station.
You can access this shopping area in Taipei as early as 8am. The lights aren’t actually on until 9am and most stores open at 11am. Official closing hours are at 9:30pm, but most shops begin to shut down at 8pm.
How do I know this? Because you can find me and a few elderly people walking around this Taipei shopping mall for exercise in the mornings.
If you’re looking to get to Taipei City Mall with a little less chaos, you can enter from the Beimen station side. Just get to the Beimen station and from there follow signs for the Airport MRT. Along the way on your left side, you’ll see several entrances to Taipei City Mall
Getting To The Taipei Underground Mall From Taipei Main Station Terminal
Head underground towards the Taipei High Speed Rail (THSR). Along the way you’ll see a sign for “Taipei City Mall” and follow the signs. It’s about a 5-minute walk from the terminal level.
Don’t be confused by the other malls through.
Getting To The Taipei Station Underground Mall From Beimen Station
The underground mall in Taipei is so big that it spans the length of a subway stop (850 meters). To experience the best of Taiwan shopping, start at Beimen station. It’s less crowded and it will be easier to find the underground mall Taipei.
Taipei Airport MRT sign
Within Beimen station, just follow signs for the airport MRT. After you make your first right turn from the MRT platform, there will be an entrance to “Taipei City Mall” on your left.
Taiwan, Taipei, 2X MRT ride from Songshan Airport to Beimen
MRT ride from Songshan Airport to Nanjing Fuxing 8:50
MRT ride from Nanjing Fuxing to Beimen 21:00
escalator 0:12 , 3:46 , 4:28 , 14:46 , 16:58 , 19:28 , 29:26 , 33:00 , 35:00
moving sidewalk 1:02
elevator 2:22 , 6:10
ticket barrier 3:02 , 32:16
MRT train ride 9:00
- recorded with Sony a6500 (firmware 1.04), Sigma 16mm F1.4, Zhiyun Crane v1.0 (firmware v1.60), Sony ECM-XYST1M
January 2018
Tainan, Taiwan - Best Travel Destination
Tainan, officially Tainan City, is a special municipality located in southern Taiwan, facing the Taiwan Strait in the west and south. Tainan is the oldest city in Taiwan and also commonly known as the Capital City for its over 200 years of history as the capital of Taiwan under Koxinga and later Qing dynasty rule. Tainan's complex history of comebacks, redefinition and renewals inspired its popular nickname the Phoenix City. Tainan was initially established by the Dutch East India Company as a ruling and trading base called Fort Zeelandia during the period of Dutch rule on Taiwan. After Dutch colonists were defeated by Koxinga in 1661, Tainan remained as the capital of the Tungning Kingdom until 1683 and afterwards the capital of Taiwan Prefecture under the rule of Qing Dynasty until 1887, when the new provincial capital was moved to Taipei. Tainan has been historically regarded as one of the oldest cities in Taiwan, and its former name, Tayouan, has been claimed to be the origin of the name Taiwan. It is also one of Taiwan's cultural capitals, for its rich folk cultures including the famous local snack food, extensively preserved Taoist rites and other living local traditions covering everything from child birth to funerals. The city houses the first Confucian school–temple, built in 1665, the remains of the Eastern and Southern gates of the old city, and countless other historical monuments. Tainan claims more Buddhist and Taoist temples than any other city in Taiwan.
Leaving/Arriving at Taipei Songshan Airport / 臺北松山機場
Taipei Songshan Airport (IATA: TSA, ICAO: RCSS) / 臺北松山機場 / is a mid-size commercial airport and military airbase located in Songshan, Taipei, Taiwan (the Republic of China). The airport has scheduled flights serving domestically in Taiwan, and also to China, South Korea and Japan, with the vast majority of international flights out of the Taipei area now served by Taoyuan International Airport - the main international airport serving Taipei.
The airport was built in 1936 during Japanese rule with its origins as a Japanese military airbase, the Taihoku Airfield / 臺北飛行場, also known as Matsuyama Airfield / 松山飛行場. After World War II, in 1946, it was taken over by the Republic of China Air Force. Before the end of the Chinese Civil War and the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the airport provided flight routes between Shanghai and Taipei, occasionally via Fuzhou.
Domestic destinations have been Kaohsiung, Hualien, Taichung, Makung, and Tainan. The first international destinations were Seattle, Tokyo, Pusan, Manila, Bangkok, and Hong Kong. The first international airlines included Northwest Airlines, Pan American Airlines, and Hong Kong Airways (now Cathay Pacific). Later, the airport became too small to handle an increased number of passengers, even after a series of expansions. This later worsened when new wide-body jets became common at the airport. Therefore, all international activities were relocated to Chiang Kai-shek International Airport after its inauguration on 26 February 1979.
Songshan Airport is seen to have the potential to attract business travelers within Pacific Asia due to its location in downtown Taipei.