Taipei for couples
Day 1 covers Zhongzheng and Wanhua on foot, from Liberty Square to Longshan Temple to Dadaocheng. Day 2 moves east to Xinyi for Taipei 101 and Yongkang Street's beef noodles. Day 3 heads north to Beitou's hot springs and the National Palace Museum in Shilin. About 25 kilometres of walking across all three days, plus MRT rides between districts.
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3-day itinerary
Day 1 covers Zhongzheng and Wanhua on foot, from Liberty Square to Longshan Temple to Dadaocheng. Day 2 moves east to Xinyi for Taipei 101 and Yongkang Street's beef noodles. Day 3 heads north to Beitou's hot springs and the National Palace Museum in Shilin. About 25 kilometres of walking across all three days, plus MRT rides between districts.
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Must-see
The National Palace Museum in Shilin, founded in 1925 and relocated from Beijing to Taipei in 1949, holds around 697,000 artifacts including the Jadeite Cabbage and Meat-shaped Stone. Admission is NT$350. Go at 9am on a weekday when tour-group buses from Keelung port are still loading. The air-conditioned galleries are a relief from Taipei's summer heat.
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Food culture
Taipei runs on night markets, breakfast soy-milk shops, and 30-TWD bowls of lu rou fan from hole-in-the-wall lunch counters. Raohe and Ningxia night markets feed the city after dark with pepper buns, oyster omelettes, and stinky tofu grilled over charcoal. Beef noodle soup is the civic obsession. Tipping is not expected. Budget 300-500 TWD per day eating well from stalls.
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Where locals go
Taipei's locals skip the big-name night markets. Minsheng Community's Fujin Street in Songshan fills with the coffee-and-bookshop crowd on weekday mornings. Nanjichang Night Market in Zhongzheng has almost zero tourists after 6pm. Gongguan's lanes near NTU fill with students eating NT$60 bento boxes between classes.
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Where to stay
Zhongshan district for a first trip to Taipei. It sits on both the red and green MRT lines, 2 stops from Taipei Main Station and 4 from Taipei 101. Budget NT$2,500-4,500 ($80-140) per night for a mid-range hotel. Da'an is the pick if Yongkang Street's dumpling scene matters more than transit centrality.
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