Beitou Hot Springs
Beitou District, Taiwan
Beitou is Taipei's hot spring district — a valley on the northern edge of the city where volcanic activity heats natural springs to temperatures of 40-100°C, creating a bathing culture that has been central to Taipei life since the Japanese colonial government developed the area as a resort in the early 1900s.
Huashan 1914 Creative Park
No. 1, Section 1, Bade Road, Zhongzheng District, Taipei
Huashan 1914 is a former sake brewery converted into Taipei's most important creative park — a campus of red-brick industrial buildings from the Japanese colonial era that now houses galleries, performance spaces, indie cinemas, design shops, and the weekend markets that bring Taipei's creative community together.
Jiufen Old Street
Jiufen, Ruifang District, New Taipei City
Jiufen is a hillside village an hour east of Taipei that was a gold mining town in the Japanese colonial era, fell into quiet decline when the mines closed, and was reborn as one of Taiwan's most popular tourist destinations after it was widely (though inaccurately) identified as the inspiration for the spirit bathhouse in Hayao Miyazaki's 'Spirited Away.
Longshan Temple
No. 211, Guangzhou Street, Wanhua District, Taipei
Longshan Temple is the most important temple in Taipei — a 1738 Buddhist-Taoist-folk religion complex in the Wanhua district that has survived earthquakes, typhoons, Japanese colonial prohibition of Chinese religion, and a World War II Allied bombing that destroyed the main hall (the statue of Guanyin, the goddess of mercy, survived unscathed in the rubble, which cemented the temple's reputation for divine protection).
Raohe Street Night Market
135–185 Raohe St, Ciyou, Songshan District, 105058, Taiwan
Raohe Street Night Market is Taipei's oldest night market — a single 400-metre street in the Songshan district that many Taipei residents prefer to Shilin for the quality of its food and the more manageable scale.
Songshan Cultural & Creative Park
No. 133 Guangfu S Rd, Xinren, Xinyi District, 110055, Taiwan
Songshan Cultural and Creative Park is a converted Japanese-era tobacco factory that has become Taipei's design and creativity hub — a campus of Art Deco industrial buildings from 1937 surrounding a central garden with a lotus pond and mature banyan trees.
Taipei Confucius Temple
No. 275, Dalong Street, Datong District, Taipei
The Taipei Confucius Temple is a Southern Fujian-style temple completed in 1939 that honours Confucius with the traditional rites and architectural conventions that have been practised across the Chinese world for over 2,000 years.
Taipei's Bubble Tea Culture
Taiwan
Bubble tea (zhēnzhū nǎichá, pearl milk tea) was invented in Taiwan in the 1980s — a drink of tea, milk, and chewy tapioca balls (boba) that has become one of the most successful Taiwanese cultural exports and is now available in virtually every city in the world.
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