The best way to Go to Jiufen from Taipei (Day Journey)

If you end up visiting Taipei, chances are high you’ll contemplate a day journey to Jiufen. The mountainous city in northeast Taiwan is among the hottest day journeys from Taipei and for good purpose. For starters, it’s extremely picturesque with slender alleyways, teahouses and previous world attraction. Secondly, there’s an unimaginable selection of Taiwanese meals and native delicacies (plus among the greatest bubble tea you’ll find within the nation!)

Attending to Jiufen from Taipei

The simplest strategy to go to Jiufen is by bus. Whereas trains are additionally on supply, it’s faster, simpler and cheaper to hop on a bus in Taipei that may take you on to the previous city of Jiufen. The journey time from Taipei to Jiufen is round 60-90 minutes relying on visitors. The worth of the bus is only some {dollars}, making it an affordable day journey to take by yourself (although there are a lot of corporations providing day journeys in the event you choose to go together with a information).

Which bus must you take?

Take bus quantity 965 from Taipei to Jiufen, which operates between Banqiao and Jinguashi. Buses run each 30-40 minutes throughout peak instances, and each 40-60 minutes off-peak. The most effective time of day to go to is outdoors of peak visitors instances in Taipei, because it took as noticeably longer to return to Taipei when returning after sundown from Jiufen.

What to do in Jiufen

Jiufen is often considered the foodie capital of Taiwan. It’s additionally right here in Jiufen the place I had the perfect bubble tea of the journey, so you should definitely arrive hungry and able to attempt the native delicacies!

In the event you take pleasure in sweets, there are an abundance on supply in Jiufen. This suited me nicely being a vegetarian, as I had beforehand missed out on quite a lot of native meals choices – however alas, Jiufen didn’t disappoint! A few of the greatest candy delicacies on supply in Jiufen are:

• Brown sugar bubble tea
• Peanut ice cream rolls
• Taro ball soup
• Mochi

One other spotlight for foodies visiting Jiufen is the normal teahouses. These tea homes date again to Japanese rule and really feel like a step again in time. Two of the perfect that I can advocate are A-MEI Teahouse and JiouFen TeaHouse.