Taiwan
A 7-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
7 days
Best time to go
Late October through December for pleasant temperatures, clear skies, and minimal rainfall.
What your 7-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 7 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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