Beitou Hot Springs

新北投溫泉區（北投溫泉博物館・地熱谷）

A steaming green sulphur pool and a century-old bathhouse museum

⚠ Museum & valley closed Mon

Hours

Museum Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00 (last entry 17:45), closed Mondays and public holidays unless they fall on a weekend; Thermal Valley Tue–Sun 09:00–17:00, closed Mondays

Tickets

Museum and Thermal Valley free; bath prices vary by hotel or public bath

Address

Hot Spring Museum, 2 Zhongshan Rd, Beitou; Thermal Valley is 5–10 minutes further up the same road

Half an hour on the metro gets you to a hot-spring town. From Xinbeitou station follow the stream through the park to the Hot Spring Museum, a red-brick building with a timber upper floor. It opened in 1913 as a public bathhouse; downstairs the old main pool is still ringed by Roman-style arches, upstairs is a tatami lounge you enter in socks. A little further uphill is Thermal Valley, a jade-green pool of acidic water at 80–100°C that steams nonstop and was once called Hell Valley. Then you go and soak: a hotel day pass or a century-old public bath.