20 Amazing Places to Try in Taiwan this 2025

1. Taipei 101 Observatory

20 Amazing Places to Try in Taiwan this 2025

A great way to admire the panoramic view of Taipei City. Learn also about the Damper Baby, the reason why Taipei 101 is safe from earthquakes. Avail Ticker on Klook and use HELLOPHILTAI for the promo code.

Official Website: https://www.taipei-101.com.tw/tw/observatory

2. Tokiya Fuxing Taipei Branch

20 Amazing Places to Try in Taiwan this 2025

One of the affordable restaurants in Taiwan that I personally recommend to tourists. It’s kid-friendly and elderly friendly. My favorite is their special service for Birthdays with a birthday cake, a song and souvenir photo,

Official website: https://www.tokiya.com.tw/

3. The Grand Hotel Taipei

20 Amazing Places to Try in Taiwan this 2025

Taipei Grand Hotel, a 14-story palace-like building, faces Keelung River, nestled against Yangming Mountain, overlooking Songshan in the east and Danshui in the west. Since 1952, the Grand Hotel has been standing midway up Yuanshan, a towering building with red columns, gilded tiles and a magnificent, grandiose, regal, classic presence, a must-visit great gem of Chinese culture.

20 Amazing Places to Try in Taiwan this 2025

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4. The Chimei Museum Tainan

20 Amazing Places to Try in Taiwan this 2025

The Chimei Museum is a private museum established in 1992 by Shi Wen-long of Chi Mei Corporation in Rende District, Tainan, Taiwan. The museum’s collection is divided into five categories: Fine arts (including painting, sculpture, decorative arts and period furniture); Musical instruments; Natural history and fossils; Arms and armor; Antiquities and artifacts.

The museum is known for housing the world’s largest violin collection and for its significant collections of ancient weapons and sculptures. Forbes magazine, in its February 1996 article on private collectors in Asia, called the Chimei Museum “one of the world’s most surprising art collections.”The museum moved to its current venue on Wenhua Road in 2014, and it is open to the public except on designated days.

The Chimei Museum Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimei_Museum

5. Anping Old Fort Tainan

20 Amazing Places to Try in Taiwan this 2025

In 1624, Dutch built the first fort in Anping, Taiwan, called “Fort Zeelandia”, now known as Anping Old Fort, where has been the administrative center of the Dutch regime, and the hub for trading. The building was originally constructed in square inner fortress and rectangle outer walls.

In 1661, the fort was renamed as Anping to commemorate his home town when Koxinga (Cheng Cheng Kung) has driven the Dutch out of Taiwan. Therefore, Fort Zeelandia was also known as “King’s Fort” or “Taiwan Fort”, nicknamed Anping Old Fort.

In Kangxi Emperor’s regime of Qing Dynasty, Taiwan was included in the empire that the political center was transferred to Tainan City, causing the decline of the Fort. The red bricks of the Fort have been taken for construction of Eternal Fortress. During the Japanese occupation, the Dutch style buildings in inner fortress were completely destroyed.

A square red-bricked step platform was constructed with a western style house on the platform, being served as dormitory for Customs officials, where the memorial hall now is located. It was named Anping Old Fort after Restoration of Taiwan and become an attraction for tourists. The remaining more than 70 meters long south walls of the outer fort with worn-out red bricks, accompanied by the old banyan roots, chanted its odyssey. The fort is the very historical replica over three hundred years.

Reference: https://eng.taiwan.net.tw/m1.aspx?sNo=0002119&id=147

6. Fort Zeelandia Museum Tainan

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The building was first built in 1882 as Anping Customs House. During the Japanese Period it was used by the Customs Club and Tainan Archives at different times. After the end of World War 2 it was used as the Anping District Office at one point. Tainan City Government converted the building into the “Tainan City Yonghan Folk Crafts Museum” after Chiu Yonghan, a well-known businessman, donated his collection to the city. It is today the Zeelandia Museum and there are four exhibition halls: “Reconstruction”, “Fortification”, “Official Narrative” and “Remnants.” The VOC symbol of the Dutch East Indies Company at the front of the museum has been preserved.

Reference: https://www.twtainan.net/en/attractions/detail/5530

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7. DDG 925 Teyang Maritime Museum Tainan

20 Amazing Places to Try in Taiwan this 2025

The “DDG-925 TeYang” museum ship is the most popular attraction in Anping Harbor and the only warship museum in Taiwan.

DDG-925 was decommissioned in 2009 after nearly 30 years of service and docked at Anping Harbor for conversion into a warship museum for educational use. DDG-925 is now not only popular with military tourists. Photographers are also drawn to its formidable lines.

20 Amazing Places to Try in Taiwan this 2025 Read more here: https://historic.tainan.gov.tw/index.php?option=module&lang=en&task=pageinfo&id=166&index=1

8. The Big Fish’s Blessing Tainan

20 Amazing Places to Try in Taiwan this 2025

“The blessing of the big fish” is a brand new piece of public art installation that Tainan City’s Tourism Bureau has commissioned renowned artist Yang Shih-Yi to construct at the Historic Harborside Park next to the Anping Canal. Running 23 meters long, 10 meters wide and 8 meters high, the upper half of the whale is made up of 3,714 stainless steel pipes welded together without the use of a single bolt to keep the contours pure; the image of Taiwan within the whale comprises 634 steel pipes put together in the same way, decorated with 448 pieces of glazed glasses in different colors to recreate the island of Taiwan to embody the island’s inclusiveness and fascinating qualities.

The art installation weighs over 20 metric tons and the bottom half of the installation makes ingenious use of the whale’s body contours to support the weight without requiring vertical columns. Not only that, visitors can even climb a flight of stairs to get into the “tummy” of the whale to enjoy the view of the sea and sunset.

There are three specific angles and positions that one can best experience the beauty and ingenuity of the art work: 1. Stand at the ground floor and look up at the base of the island of Taiwan that is made up of the 448 pieces of glazed glasses as a gesture of gratitude and respect for the island; 2. Go to the 2nd floor inside the whale and look at the island of Taiwan from above, as a gesture of appreciation and 3. Take a look at everyone else around you and come to the realization that as we live on the same island, we ought to treat each other kindly, just as Taiwan has treated us.

20 Amazing Places to Try in Taiwan this 2025 Reference: https://www.twtainan.net/en/attractions/detail/5730

9. High-Heel Church Chiayi

20 Amazing Places to Try in Taiwan this 2025

The Blackfoot-Disease was a widespread epidemic disease and ruthless struck The Southwest Coast region in early times. Many female patients tried to survive and had to accept the fate of amputation. Thus many girls had lost their dream of walking on a red wedding carpet with an elegant high heel.

To commemorate this unforgotten history and also pursuit the ideal of happiness, The Southwest Coast National Scenic Area Administration spend N.T. $23.170 million dollars to construct a “Blue high heel Church” which is located in Chiayi Budai Seascape Park.

The church’s high is 17 meters, width 11 meters and it was constructed with 320 pieces of glasses and 1269 steels. This glass heel just like a shining salt crystal, and wishes Southwest Coast region can have a better future.

Reference: https://www.swcoast-nsa.gov.tw/en/attraction/details/494

10. Ho’me Restaurant

Taiwanese people enjoy Themed Restaurants and this Ho’me Restaurant is one of the popular places to go in Taipei. You can hold your events here, birthday parties, engagement and many more. It would be best to get a reservation if you wish to dine in. It’s a family friendly restaurant and kids will surely like it here because they have enough spaces for the children to play and explore.

Official Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/o2sweetfamily

Official Website: https://home20140520.com.tw/

Address: No. 79, Wenhu St, Neihu District, Taipei City, 11445

11. Guandu Wharf

20 Amazing Places to Try in Taiwan this 2025

During the pandemic time, this place has become one of my favorites. It has enough space for people to breathe and rest from wearing the facemask for a while. It has a cruise if you want to aboard you need to register. There’s a boardwalk going to the port. The reception area is at the front.

But during the pandemic, we enjoyed the Bike Trail here at Guandu Wharf. The view is just surreal and no matter how many times I saw it, I still feel captivated by it. I mean, I can stare at it forever.

It’s easy to reach this place. You just have to ride the Red Line MRT to Tamsui, stop at Guandu MRT Station and then walk towards here at the wharf or ride a U-bike.

20 Amazing Places to Try in Taiwan this 2025

12. Tamsui Presbyterian Church

20 Amazing Places to Try in Taiwan this 2025

The current Tamsui Church building was built by Japan. It was then renovated in 1932 due to deterioration and opened by the son of George Leslie Mackay on 28 November 1933. The building was again renovated in 1986.

The Tamsui church chapel is a Gothic building, and the clock tower is one of its features. This clock has existed since the completion of the “White Chapel” in 1915. There is no earlier information, only the clock face is cast with “YORK” and “No. 30” et al. Made in the USA.

13. The Rainbow Village

20 Amazing Places to Try in Taiwan this 2025

The artwork of the area was created by former soldier, Huang Yung-Fu, who was born in Taishan county, Guangdong province in 1924, the eldest of four brothers and two sisters. He began painting houses in his settlement, now known as Rainbow village, to save them from demolition. Over the years his colourful artwork, which includes birds, animals and people, has spread over the remaining houses in the village, which once contained 1,200 homes.
Read more details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Village

14. Paper Museum in Taichung

20 Amazing Places to Try in Taiwan this 2025

An interesting place for the whole family especially to your children. You can enjoy their fun DIY activities, learn more about the process of making a paper and shop so many kinds of special and extraordinary stationeries.

Website here: https://www.paper-museum.com.tw/

15. Xucuogang Wetlands in Taoyuan

20 Amazing Places to Try in Taiwan this 2025

A great place for sunset viewing. It’s also suitable for children and elderlies.

BirdLife International categorized Xucuogang as an important wild bird habitat. In October to May the following year, bird watchers come here with the hope to see black-faced spoonbills, Chinese egrets, Saunders’s gulls, and little terns. Blessed with intertidal zone, wind-break forest, fish farms, and paddy fields, it has become a midway stop for the migrant birds traveling south. More than 200 species of birds have been found here, taking up about 41% of the 560 total species in Taiwan. The birds feeding and dwelling here make a beautiful natural painting. Using telescopes and cameras without rushing or disturbing the birds is the best practice.

Xucuogang is not only the best wild bird habitat in Taoyuan but also a great natural classroom to learn about intertidal ecology. With hundreds of plants such as the Taiwan giantreed, Chinese Hackberry, bayhops, and Japanese dock; as well as amphibians such as the rice field frogs and spectacled toads. Many Taiwan-specific species can be found here.

Read more details here: https://travel.tycg.gov.tw/en/travel/attraction/1352

16. Miyahara in Taichung

20 Amazing Places to Try in Taiwan this 2025

Situated nearby Taichung Train Station on the bank of Luchuan, Miyahara is a red-brick architecture built by Miyahara Takeo, a Japanese ophthalmology doctor in 1927. It was the largest ophthalmology clinic in Taichung during the Japanese colonial period. After the surrender of Japan in 1945, Miyahara became Taichung Health Bureau. As time passed by, the suspended Health Bureau slowly decayed and became an unused dangerous building.

Fortunately, Dawn Cake, a pastry company renowned for its pineapple cakes, acquired the building and preserved Miyahara’s original red-brick walls and archway. The interior decor was redesigned like Hogwarts in the movie Harry Potter. The water well in the middle of the building is redecorated into a modern-looking fundraising box made of glass.
Visitors to Miyahara are not only recommended to appreciate the details of the historic architecture but also try Dawn Cake’s signature ice cream, bubble tea and pastries wrapped in nostalgic packings!

Miyahara Official Website: https://www.miyahara.com.tw/en/index.html

17. Taoyuan Seashore Bikeway

20 Amazing Places to Try in Taiwan this 2025

Taiwan is a great country for cyclists. There is a bike route all over the country. And because of this convenience, so many people take on a challenge of circumnavigating the island with just a bike. Taoyuan Seashore Bikeway is one spot to visit if you love to ride a bike. It’s an easy ride with so many view points.

Offficial website: https://www.xinwu.tycg.gov.tw/

18. Calligraphy Greenway Taichung

20 Amazing Places to Try in Taiwan this 2025

Calligraphy Greenway comes in 3.6 kilometers, ranging north from National Museum of Natural Science to National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in the south. It’s an urban space structure shaped in a kind of long and wide stripe. Along the stripped space, National Museum of Natural Science, Citizens Square, Park Lane by CMP, gallery space, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, and food court are gathered here to offer a variety of merry events, activities, etc., upbeat spirits, fun in all forms. That’s why this urban space is named Calligraphy Greenway owing to that the atmosphere, tempo, and movement of those events within it are free, flexible that’s just like the cursive writing of Chinese calligraphy.

Official Website: https://travel.taichung.gov.tw/en/attractions/intro/1050

19. Taichung Station Cultural Park

20 Amazing Places to Try in Taiwan this 2025

Taichung Station is a great spot to explore if you spend a day in Taichung. Understanding the culture of Taiwan through modern ways is surely interesting for the tourists. If you come and visit, you will be able to explore the old Taichung Station and also check the newly built Taichung Station.

Official Website: https://www.tcrp.com.tw/

Official Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/cri.taichung

20. Lulu’s Kitchen Witch Pumpkin House Taichung

You can come here in Lulu’s Kitchen Witch Pumpkin House solo, with your romantic partner, family, your kids or your squad! As it is a witch themed restaurant, it would be the best place to celebrate your halloween!

One of the best costume recommendation I would give your squad is a Harry Potter Themed Costume. Why? Well, I have been to Lulu’s Kitchen Witch Pumpkin House several times and pretending to be in Hogwarts inside this magical restaurant is just a whole lot of experience for the gang!

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20 Amazing Places to Try in Taiwan this 2025