Taichung — Sights
Ice cream in an old eye clinic, Fengjia after dark.
- Rainbow Village — One old soldier's paintbrush saved a village from the bulldozers
- National Taichung Theater — Toyo Ito's opera house of curving, cave-like walls
- Gaomei Wetlands — Sunset over tidal flats beneath a line of wind turbines
- Fengjia Night Market — One of Taiwan's biggest night markets, where new snacks are born
- Yizhong Street — Cheap, fast snacks among the school-uniform crowd
- Shenji New Village — Old civil-servant housing reborn as craft shops and cafés
- Calligraphy Greenway — A strip of lawn and trees from museum to mall
- Miyahara — A 1927 eye clinic turned Hogwarts-library dessert shop
- Taichung Park — A 1903 park with a twin-roofed pavilion on the lake
- National Museum of Natural Science — From dinosaur skeletons to a glass rainforest greenhouse
- Taichung Second Market — Radish cake and braised pork rice in a century-old market
- Sun Moon Lake — A mountain lake by boat, bike and cable car
- Cingjing Farm — Sheep and clouds on a high mountain meadow
- Lukang Old Town — Qing-era port lanes of red brick and an old Mazu temple
- Luce Memorial Chapel, Tunghai University — I.M. Pei's curving chapel of yellow tiles
- Lin Family Mansion and Garden — A Qing official's mansion, ponds and opera stage, intact
- National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts — A big art museum on the greenway, with sculpture outside
- Taichung Confucius Temple — A hushed Minnan-style temple, easy to wander and photograph
- Taichung Central Park — Walk the long lake and catch the evening light
- National Taiwan Museum of Comics — Fifteen old prison-officer houses now hold comics
- Taichung Cultural and Creative Industries Park — Old liquor-factory brick halls, now full of shows and stalls
- Wenxin Forest Park — A morning walk under trees in the middle of the city
- Taichung Folklore Park — Rebuilt old Taiwanese houses and gardens to wander
- Zhongshe Flower Market — Seasonal flower fields on a photo run out of town
- Jenn Lann Temple — Mazu's great temple, where the yearly pilgrimage starts