Taiwan
A 10-day trip to Taipei
Taipei is night markets and dumplings under a skyline of mountains — friendly, cheap, and one of Asia's great food cities.
Taipei is compact, safe, and built around night markets — eat your way through Shilin and Raohe after dark. The MRT is excellent; use it and explore the mountains behind the city.
Trip length
10 days
Best time to go
Late October through December for pleasant temperatures, clear skies, and minimal rainfall.
What your 10-day plan includes
- A day-by-day itinerary with neighborhoods clustered so you spend less time in transit.
- Real budget awareness — a target, an estimate, and a status you can dial up or down.
- Recommendations shaped by your pace, food priorities, group, and must-dos.
- Swap anything, improve any day, refine in any direction without starting over.
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How to plan 10 days in Taipei
- Base yourself within a 5-minute walk of a Blue (Bannan) or Red (Tamsui-Xinyi) MRT line station to cut your cross-town travel times in half.
- Don't try to cram Jiufen and Yangmingshan National Park into the same calendar day; they sit in opposite directions and will strand you in transit.
- Hit Din Tai Fung's original Xinyi or Taipei 101 branch right at opening (11:00 AM) to pull a QR code wait time, then browse nearby shops rather than waiting in peak lunch lines.
- Schedule your Elephant Mountain hike for 4:30 PM to catch both the sunset over the Taipei 101 basin and the neon lighting up across the city.
- Pair Beitou's sulfuric hot spring bathhouses with a sunset stroll through Tamsui's Old Street, since both sit sequentially on the northern stretch of the Red MRT line.
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