Published date: October 4, 2024
I won the [Buy Coins and Win a Plane Ticket Campaign] and went to Taipei!
Room Type Stayed
Superior Twin (breakfast included)
1 ~ 2 guest(s)
440 ~
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Experience of the stay
The plane ticket I won was with Peach. It departed Kansai at 15:45 and arrived at Taoyuan Airport in 3 hours, and it took 35 minutes to get to Taipei Station by MRT from Taoyuan Airport. I checked in at 20:00 Taipei time after a 10-minute walk from the station.
The location is Ximending, known as the Shibuya and Harajuku of Taiwan.
I was surprised to see beds lined up in a row separated by a sofa, but it seems this was the result of effectively utilizing a narrow and long room.
I stayed for 2 nights in a boutique hotel like Moxy.
This stay included breakfast, a buffet style that begins at 7 am.
I thought I could go to the morning market or a sandwich shop with soy milk if I didn't like it, but I ended up having breakfast here for both nights.
The location is great, and it's a recommended hotel.
Experiences during the trip
In the rain, I dashed into the nearby "Yang Pork Rib Noodle" for a late dinner and had pork rib noodles (Paiko Men) and braised pork rice (Lu Rou Fan). The noodles were average, but the pork ribs were delicious.
This area of Ximending used to be a Japanese neighborhood before the war, with remnants like the "Nihon Honganji (Honganji Taiwan Branch)" still present.
The "Taipei Tianhou Temple," also known as the "Ximending Mazu Temple," worships the goddess Mazu, and surprisingly, it also houses the "Kobo Daishi."
This temple, established in 1910 as the "Shinkōyama Kōbō-ji" during the Japanese colonial period, was abandoned after the war, and the "Shinkō Shrine" moved to the site without discarding the foreign evil deity.
On the other hand, the "National Taiwan Museum" located on the Dongmen (Gyeongbokgung Gate) side was built on the site of the destroyed "Daitian Tianhou Temple" in 1908 as the "Governor General Kodama General Administration Hall," later renamed the "Taiwan Governor General Museum."
The current building, with its columns and dome in Greek style, was completed in 1915.
The statues of the occupying fourth Taiwanese governor Genji Kodama and civil administration chief Shinpei Gotō were not destroyed and are displayed in an upper corner of the hall. You can feel the warmth of the Taiwanese people here.
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