How many days do you need in Taipei?
Three days. That is the length of the itinerary we built for Taipei.
Here is what each day holds. Every stop below carries its time, and every gap says how to get to the next stop, with the walk or drive time wherever both stops are mapped.
Taipei · 3 days Taiwan
Best time: October to April for cooler, drier weather.
Downtown and XinyiDay 1
📍9:00 AMChiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall
Arrive for the hourly changing of the guard in the main hall, then walk the gardens and the two concert halls flanking the square.
🚗 ~9 min · 2.7 mi
🌇1:00 PMTaipei 101 observatory
The tower that defined the skyline; the observatory is worth it on a clear day for the mountains ringing the basin.
🚶 ~38 min · 🚗 ~5 min · 1.4 mi
🍽️6:30 PMRaohe Street Night Market
A single dense lane behind a temple, easier to navigate than Shilin and strong on pepper buns and stewed pork rice.
Old Taipei and the museumDay 2
🖼️9:00 AMNational Palace Museum
The imperial Chinese collection moved here in 1949; go at opening and pick two galleries rather than attempting all of it.
🚗 ~14 min · 4.0 mi
🌆2:00 PMDadaocheng and Dihua Street
The nineteenth-century tea and herb trading street, now a row of restored shophouses selling dried goods and fabric.
🚶 ~9 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 0.3 mi
🍽️6:00 PMNingxia Night Market
Smaller and more local than the tourist markets, and the easiest place to try oyster omelette and taro balls.
Beitou and the hillsDay 3
📍9:30 AMBeitou hot springs
A whole valley of public and private bathhouses at the end of a metro branch line, with the sulphurous Thermal Valley steaming above them.
🚇 Metro or walk
🖼️2:00 PMBeitou Hot Spring Museum
The 1913 Japanese-era bathhouse, kept as a museum of how the valley was developed.
🚗 ~30 min · 8.5 mi
📍5:30 PMElephant Mountain
A short steep stair climb from the city for the classic view straight at Taipei 101, best in the last hour of light.
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