If you end up visiting Taipei, chances are high you’ll take into account 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 For starters, it’s extremely picturesque with slender alleyways, teahouses and outdated world attraction. Secondly, there’s an unimaginable alternative of Taiwanese meals and native delicacies (plus a number of the greatest bubble tea you’ll discover within the nation!)
Attending to Jiufen from Taipei
The best solution 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are additionally on supply, it’s faster, simpler and cheaper to hop on a bus in Taipei that may take you on to the outdated city of Jiufen. The journey time from Taipei to Jiufen is round 60-90 minutes relying on site visitors. The value of the bus is just a few {dollars}, making it an inexpensive day journey to take by yourself (although there are a lot of firms providing day journeys in the event you want 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 very best time of day to go to is outdoors of peak site 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 usually thought to be 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’ll want to arrive hungry and able to attempt the native delicacies!
For those who get pleasure from sweets, there are an abundance on supply in Jiufen. This suited me nicely being a vegetarian, as I had beforehand missed out on 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 standard 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 suggest are A-MEI Teahouse and JiouFen TeaHouse.
