Taipei — Sights
Night-market steam, with Taipei 101 glowing above it.
- Songshan Cultural and Creative Park — A design walk through a former tobacco factory
- Dalongdong Baoan Temple — A Taoist temple amid an old neighbourhood
- Treasure Hill Artist Village — An art village layered into a hillside settlement
- Yongkang Street — A street for linking snacks, cafés and small shops
- Taipei 101 Observatory — 89 floors in 37 seconds, with a 660-tonne steel ball inside
- Elephant Mountain (Xiangshan) — Twenty minutes of stone steps to a free, face-on view of 101
- National Palace Museum — Jade cabbage, a stone like pork belly, and 700,000 imperial treasures
- Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall — A white hall under a blue roof, with honour guards on the hour
- Longshan Temple — Taipei's oldest temple, wreathed in incense since 1738
- Ximending — Rainbow crossing, standing-room noodles: Taipei's Myeongdong
- Shilin Night Market — Taipei's biggest night market: face-sized fried chicken and a basement food hall
- Raohe Street Night Market — From the pepper-bun oven at the temple gate, one long straight lane
- Beitou Hot Springs — A steaming green sulphur pool and a century-old bathhouse museum
- Dihua Street — Dried mango, tea and the matchmaker god on a century-old trading street
- Huashan 1914 Creative Park — Pop-ups, exhibitions and design shops in a century-old brewery
- Jiufen — A gold-rush hill town where red lanterns light the stairs at dusk
- Shifen Old Street & Sky Lanterns — Write a wish, then launch a sky lantern from the railway tracks
- Tamsui — Sunset over the river mouth, a bowl of A-gei, a red Spanish fort
- Maokong Gondola — A glass-floored cable car up to tea farms for a cup of oolong
- Yangmingshan National Park — Steaming volcano ridges a bus ride from downtown
- Taipei Zoo — Pandas, and the Maokong gondola station next door
- Taipei Confucius Temple — Incense-free Minnan temple, a quiet pause by Dadaocheng
- Dadaocheng Wharf — Sunset across the river with container food stalls
- Presidential Office Building — Red-brick colonial landmark with a 60 m tower
- Taipei Fine Arts Museum — Taiwan's first modern art museum
- Daan Forest Park — Taipei's green lung for jogging and birds
- Taipei Botanical Garden — Lotus ponds and old buildings in the shade
- National Taiwan Museum — Taiwan's oldest museum in a 1915 temple-style hall
- Wulai Old Street and Waterfall — Atayal village, hot springs, waterfall, trolley