If you end up visiting Taipei, likelihood is you’ll think about a day journey to Jiufen. The mountainous city in northeast Taiwan is without doubt one of the hottest day journeys from Taipei and for good motive. For starters, it’s extremely picturesque with slim alleyways, teahouses and previous world allure. Secondly, there’s an unimaginable alternative of Taiwanese meals and native delicacies (plus a few of the finest bubble tea you’ll find within the nation!)
Attending to Jiufen from Taipei
The simplest 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 previous city of Jiufen. The journey time from Taipei to Jiufen is round 60-90 minutes relying on visitors. The value of the bus is only some {dollars}, making it an inexpensive day journey to take by yourself (although there are lots of corporations providing day journeys in case you choose to go along 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 thought to be the foodie capital of Taiwan. It’s additionally right here in Jiufen the place I had the very best bubble tea of the journey, so make sure you arrive hungry and able to strive the native delicacies!
If you happen to take pleasure in sweets, there are an abundance on supply in Jiufen. This suited me properly being a vegetarian, as I had beforehand missed out on quite a lot of native meals choices – however alas, Jiufen didn’t disappoint! Among 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 standard teahouses. These tea homes date again to Japanese rule and really feel like a step again in time. Two of the very best that I can suggest are A-MEI Teahouse and JiouFen TeaHouse.
