Taipei Main Station & Underground Mall

Taipei Main Station is the transit hub of Taiwan — a massive station building connecting MRT, Taiwan Railways, and the High Speed Rail, with an underground city of shopping malls, food courts, and pedestrian corridors extending in every direction beneath the streets of the Zhongzheng district. The station's underground floors — the Taipei City Mall, Q Square, and the connected underground passages — create a subterranean commercial world that rivals Montreal's underground city.

The station's main hall is a cavernous marble space used by workers and students as an informal sitting area (people sit directly on the floor, a distinctly Taiwanese practice that has been the subject of cultural debate), and the surrounding food options range from the basement food courts to the Japanese-influenced department store restaurants above.