# Things to Do in Taipei

Taipei's essential sights, from an imperial-art museum and a 508-metre tower to a Qing-dynasty temple, a historic trading street, and a hilltop gondola. · community starter list

Looking for things to do in Taipei? This list of 9 includes National Palace Museum (Shilin, Taipei). The order here is where we started — no votes have been cast yet, so voting decides it from here.

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**Updated:** 2026-09-05 21:38:06

1. **[National Palace Museum](/e/national-palace-museum---1921.md)** (attraction) — Museum tracing to Beijing's 1925 Palace Museum, reopened in Taipei in 1965, holding about 700,000 Chinese artifacts; a renovation is under way, main-building work targeted for 2027, and it stays open. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Palace_Museum, https://www.cna.com.tw/news/acul/202312280376.aspx
2. **[Taipei 101](/e/taipei-101---1922.md)** (attraction) — 508-metre, 101-floor skyscraper designed by C.Y. Lee and C.P. Wang, opened in 2004; its 91st- and 101st-floor outdoor observatories remain open daily 10:00-21:00. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei_101, https://www.taipei-101.com.tw/en/observatory
3. **[National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall](/e/national-chiang-kai-shek-memorial-hall---1923.md)** (attraction) — Memorial hall still open amid an active transitional-justice debate; its honor-guard ceremony was relocated in 2024, and the premier was weighing a democratic-education-park conversion as of May 2026. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.cna.com.tw/news/aipl/202407050118.aspx, https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2026/05/12/2003857210
4. **[Longshan Temple](/e/longshan-temple---1924.md)** (attraction) — Guanyin temple founded in 1738 by Fujianese settlers; its main hall was destroyed in a 1945 air raid and rebuilt, later a national monument since 2018. Still an active place of worship. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longshan_Temple_(Taipei), https://www.lungshan.org.tw/tw/
5. **[Dihua Street](/e/dihua-street---1925.md)** (attraction) — Taipei's oldest street, with shops recorded from 1851; a Qing-to-Japanese-era shophouse row long traded tea, herbs and fabric, and 77 historic buildings were saved from demolition under a 1995 ruling. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://newtalk.tw/news/view/2021-08-02/614098, https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E8%BF%AA%E5%8C%96%E8%A1%97
6. **[Beitou Thermal Valley](/e/beitou-thermal-valley---1926.md)** (attraction) — Steaming sulfurous pond where scientist Okamoto Yohachiro found radioactive hokutolite in 1905; now a free city park open Tue-Sun 9:00-17:00 (to 18:00 in summer). — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2014/11/26/2003605310, https://www.water.gov.taipei/News_Content.aspx?n=30E4EDA27F6D9953&sms=87415A8B9CE81B16&s=CA22DFCC722E6905
7. **[Maokong Gondola](/e/maokong-gondola---1927.md)** (activity) — Cable-car line to the Maokong tea hills; closed for annual maintenance June 8-28, 2026, resumed June 29, and now runs 9:00-21:00 weekdays, 9:00-22:00 on holidays. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.gondola.taipei/cp.aspx?n=BFE4B2ABA0D9FB61, https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2026/06/02/2003858415
8. **[Elephant Mountain Trail](/e/elephant-mountain-trail---1928.md)** (activity) — 184-metre peak in the Four Beasts Mountains, part of a city-maintained trail network; its Six Giant Rocks platform is a well-known spot for photographing the Taipei skyline and Taipei 101. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.geo.gov.taipei/News_Content.aspx?n=23285747C0511EC4&sms=72544237BBE4C5F6&s=C2629CAD556415CE, https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E8%B1%A1%E5%B1%B1_(%E5%8F%B0%E5%8C%97%E5%B8%82)
9. **[Huashan 1914 Creative Park](/e/huashan-1914-creative-park---1929.md)** (attraction) — Former sake brewery and Taipei Alcohol Factory built from 1914, closed as a distillery in 1987; the disused site became an arts district from 1999 and reopened as a creative park in December 2007. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hant/%E8%8F%AF%E5%B1%B11914%E6%96%87%E5%8C%96%E5%89%B5%E6%84%8F%E7%94%A2%E6%A5%AD%E5%9C%92%E5%8D%80, https://www.huashan1914.com/w/huashan1914/History

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