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If you end up visiting Taipei, chances are high you’ll think about 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 For starters, it’s extremely picturesque with slender alleyways, teahouses and outdated world allure. Secondly, there’s an unbelievable selection of Taiwanese meals and native delicacies (plus a few of the finest bubble tea you’ll discover 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are additionally on supply, it’s faster, simpler and cheaper to hop on a bus in Taipei that can take you on to the outdated city of Jiufen. The journey time from Taipei to Jiufen is round 60-90 minutes relying on site visitors. The worth of the bus is only some {dollars}, making it an affordable day journey to take by yourself (although there are lots of firms providing day journeys if you happen to desire to go along with a information).

Which bus do you have to take?

Take bus quantity 965 from Taipei to Jiufen, which operates between Banqiao and Jinguashi. Buses run each 30-40 minutes throughout peak occasions, and each 40-60 minutes off-peak. The perfect time of day to go to is exterior of peak site visitors occasions 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 thought to be the foodie capital of Taiwan. It’s additionally right here in Jiufen the place I had one of the best bubble tea of the journey, so you should definitely arrive hungry and able to strive the native delicacies!

If you happen to get pleasure from sweets, there are an abundance on supply in Jiufen. This suited me effectively being a vegetarian, as I had beforehand missed out on quite a lot of native meals choices – however alas, Jiufen didn’t disappoint! A number of the finest 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 one of the best that I can advocate are A-MEI Teahouse and JiouFen TeaHouse.