Jiji Small Railway Line Tour (Taiwan)
The Jiji Line / Jiji Small Railway Line / 集集線 is a branch line of the Taiwan Railway Administration, located in Changhua and Nantou Counties in Taiwan with a length of 29.7 km. The line was originally built by Taipower to facilitate the construction of Mingtan Pumped Storage Hydro Power Plant in Sun Moon Lake. Afterwards, the colony government purchased the route in 1927. The line was severely damaged in the 1999 Jiji earthquake on 21 September 1999, but was repaired and resumed operations in February 2002.
On Jiji Line, there are twelve runs everyday, however, only one runs between Ershui Station and Checheng Station, and the others travel between Taichung Station and Checheng Station. The headway between each number of runs is about two hours. Due to the line being single tracked, only one train can travel the full length at a time. Historically, only the TRA's diesel-powered trains could operate on the line due to the width of the line's tunnels. Following the renovations from 2010 to 2011, the Jiji Line became navigable to other types of trains.
A one-way ticket fare, from Ershui to Checheng, is NT$44 by mileage for adults. And, an unlimited-rides pass fare is NT$80, for used in one day. The Jiji Line ticket and one-day round-trip pass is available for purchase at all the following stations: Zhunan, Miaoli, Fongyuan, Taichung, Changhua, Yuanlin, Tianzhong, Ershuei, Dajia, Shalu, Douliu, Dounan, and Chiayi.
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Checheng / 車埕 (Jiji Small Railway Line / 集集線)
Checheng / 車埕 on the Jiji Small Railway Line / 集集線 was originally a holding bay for train carriages hauling in supplies for the construction of the hydroelectric power plants, and it then grew into a logistics centre for the area's prosperous logging industry. After the moratorium on logging in 1985 it almost became a ghost town, before reinvented itself as a tourist attraction, specialising in wood carving, leftover from its logging past.
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Jiji / 集集 (Jiji Small Railway Line / 集集線)
Jiji / 集集 is the second most significant stop on the Jiji Small Railway Line / 集集線, famous for its Japanese history and the the Wuchang Temple / 武昌宮 which collapsed during the 921 earthquake / 九二一大地震 or Jiji earthquake / 集集大地震. The epicenter of the major 1999 earthquake in Taiwan was located in and named after the township. In March 2012, Jiji was named one of the Top 10 Small Tourist Towns by the Tourism Bureau of Taiwan.
Jiji Station / 集集車站 collapsed in the 9-21 Earthquake (1999) but it was rebuilt using the same Cypress structure but also reinforced with steel. In order to preserve its authenticity as much as possible, its roof tiles were replaced with others retrieved from collapsed Japanese buildings in the area.
Zhushan Zinangong & Jiji weir (紫南宮 & 集集攔河堰), Nantou,Taiwan, 7/3/2013
Zinangong (紫南宮) is a famous temple for lending money to its believers for up to NT$600. After one year, believers are supposed to come back to return the borrowed money (believers often return with interest as extra thanks to the Land god). The max. NT$600 may be saved or used to purchase something relating to your trade as either of these two actions are supposed to help facilitate the lucky flow of wealth around you.
Everyone wants to touch the Golden Chicken which is outside of temple. You may as well go to Taiwan's one and only 7-stars bathroom architecturally designed to resemble Bamboo shoots.
Jiji weir has become the water resources management center of Zhuoshui River. Its purpose is stabilizing irrigational water resources, allocating water resources effectively and providing industrial water for Yunlin Off-Shore basic industrial district.
Checheng Logging Exhibition Hall / 车埕木业馆 (Jiji Small Railway Line / 集集線)
Checheng Wood Museum / Checheng Logging Exhibition Hall / 车埕木业馆 is in Checheng - a village that was originally a holding bay for train carriages hauling in supplies for the construction of the hydroelectric power plants, and it then grew into a logistics centre for the area's prosperous logging industry. After the moratorium on logging in 1985 it almost became a ghost town, before reinvented itself as a tourist attraction, specialising in wood carving, leftover from its logging past.
Checheng (Slideshow) / 車埕 (Jiji Small Railway Line / 集集線)
Checheng / 車埕 on the Jiji Small Railway Line / 集集線 was originally a holding bay for train carriages hauling in supplies for the construction of the hydroelectric power plants, and it then grew into a logistics centre for the area's prosperous logging industry. After the moratorium on logging in 1985 it almost became a ghost town, before reinvented itself as a tourist attraction, specialising in wood carving, leftover from its logging past.
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????{Trip} Taiwan Travel -- SUN MOON LAKE 3-Day Trip/日月潭三日遊
Video of our recent trip to Sun Moon Lake and other places in the area.
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King Garden (大黑松小倆口元首館)
Add: 219, Sec. 4, Zhongshan Rd., Puli Township, Nantou County (南投縣埔里鎮中山路四段219號)
Tel: (049) 291-8668
Website: 9420.com.tw/kinggarden/about.html (Chinese)
Liao Mayor Black Tea (廖鄉長紅茶)
Add: 6-31, Tongwen Ln., Xincheng Village, Yuchi Township, Nantou County (南投縣魚池鄉新城村通文巷6-31號)
Tel: (049) 289-6217
Website: liaomayor.com.tw (Chinese)
Yuchih Cheese (空中的魚)
Add: 433, Yuchi St., Yuchi Township, Nantou County (南投縣魚池鄉魚池街433號)
Tel: 0915-519-966
Tao-Mi Country B&B (若瑟桃米民宿)
Add: 59, Taomi Ln., Taomi Eco-Village, Puli Township, Nantou County (南投縣埔里鎮桃米生態村桃米巷59號)
Tel: 0920-169-422
Website: taomi.com.tw (Chinese)
Zen and Pine Resort (禪與松休閒養生會館)
Add: 11, Ln. 71, Dingping Rd., Dingkan Village, Shuili Township, Nantou County (南投縣水里鄉頂崁村頂平路71巷11號)
Tel: (049) 287-1277
Website: zenandpine.com.tw
Sanheyuan Canguan (三合院餐館)
Add: 38, Minquan Ln., Checheng Village, Shuili Township, Nantou County (南投縣水里鄉車埕村民權巷38號)
Tel: (049) 277-5224
Sun Moon Lake National Scenic Area
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Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village
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Checheng 車埕
Checheng Railway Station 車埕火車站
Checheng Wood Museum 車埕木業展示館
Daguan Power Station 大觀發電廠
Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village 九族文化村
Ita Thao 伊達紹
Ita Thao Lakeside Trail 伊達邵親水步道
Jiji Line 集集線
Lalu Island 拉魯島
Mingtan Power Station 明潭發電廠
Mt. Maolan Trail 猫囒山步道
Shuili 水里
Shuishe 水社
Shuishe Pier 水社碼頭
Sun Moon Lake 日月潭
Sun Moon Lake Ropeway 日月潭纜車
Tea Research and Extension Station 茶業改良場
Xiangshan Scenic Outlook 向山眺望平台
Xiangshan Visitor Center 向山遊客中心
Xuanguang Temple 玄光寺
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☀️???? ????TAICHUNG Coastal Areas -- BETTER than we Thought (台中海岸線)
Went on a 2-day trip to Taichung's coastal areas, the districts west of the city's urban center, including Wuq, Shalu, and Qingshui. Quite a few interesting places. I liked the Gaomei Wetlands best. :)
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00:40 Dajia Zhenlan Temple 大甲鎮瀾宮
02:10 Dajia Ma Mianxian 大甲媽麵線
02:30 Sanyang Mao Di Hang (Straw Hats) 三陽帽蓆行
03:10 Gaomei Wetlands 高美溼地
04:50 Aofeng Hill Viewing Platform 鰲峰山觀景平台
05:30 Taichung Harbor Hotel 台中港酒店
06:30 New Palace Restaurant 新天地餐廳
07:10 Zhao Family Ancestral Residence 趙家古厝
08:10 Wuqi Fishing Harbor 梧棲漁港
10:30 Lishui Fishing Harbor麗水漁港
11:30 Golden Ville 好好聚落
13:20 Shalu Dream Street 沙鹿夢想街
14:10 Meiren Borough Painted Village 美仁里彩繪村
16:10 Gaomei Wetlands 高美溼地
Old Dajia Town
Inform any Taiwan citizen you’ve been to Dajia and you’ll be asked if you visited Dajia Zhenlan Temple, Dajia’s key attraction. Taiwan, an island nation, venerates Mazu – the Goddess of the Sea -- like no other deity. She is worshiped at almost 900 temples. Zhenlan Temple, which dates to the 1700s, is among the most famous and powerful, and the annual Dajia Mazu Pilgrimage is the best-known event celebrating her springtime birthday.
All around Dajia Zhenlan Temple are eateries of venerable pedigree that have long been satisfying the needs of pilgrims – and locals – who have come to the temple to fulfill their spiritual needs. Dajia Ma Mianxian (“Dajia Mom Rice Noodles”; 127 Jianggong Rd. / 蔣公路127號), just a minute away on foot, is specially recommended.
The Taichung region has also long been known for high-quality traditional weaving crafts. Visit Dajia’s very last traditional straw-hat shop, Sanyang Mao Di Hang (“Sanyang Hat and Mat Shop”; 48 Jiangong Rd./ 48 建功路), a short walk from Zhenlan Temple.
Gaomei Wetlands
The Gaomei Wetlands, 3000 hectares in area with a seawall stretching 3.5 kilometers facing the Taiwan Strait, is a popular birdwatching hotspot. Members of over 120 species reside here, among the most conspicuous from the heron, ibis, heron, goose, and godwit families.
A long, meandering boardwalk brings you far out into the wetlands, beyond the sedge-grass marsh out into the intertidal zone, putting you just a few feet above the teeming world of busy fiddler crabs, mudskippers, and other tiny local denizens. The birds swoop in when the tide is out, feasting on the exposed buffet. When the tide is out, visitors are permitted to step off the end of the boardwalk in the intertidal zone, where the footing is comparatively firm and the mud thickness limited, to explore the animal goings-on on the mudflats.
Wuqi Fishing Harbor
Wuqi Fishing Harbor is just off the north end of massive Taichung Port. The latter is busy with much, much larger craft. The former’s different draws are enjoyed at varying times of the day.
There’s a lively, raucous daily fish-auction market. Most boats come in during the one or two hours before sunrise, and the scene is cacophonous, to say the least, and photo-captivating. If not a night-prowler, fret not; individual craft continually chug-a-lug in during the day, knowing local buyers punctually appearing right to provide you with unposed photo opps among the weary sailor folk.
Qingshui District
For even better views over the coastal region, head higher up Aofeng Hill to the park area immediately beyond, where two visually enticing architectural works await, Aofeng Jade Bridge and, higher still along the park’s pleasing pathway, Aofeng Hill Viewing Platform. The former is a curving waterway-leaping pedestrian bridge shaped auspiciously like a jade piece, bringing good fengshui. The latter is perhaps the coastal area’s best spot for sunsets and star-viewing.
Nearby, back down on the coastal plain, is the heritage-status Zhao Family Ancestral Residence (476 Zhongshan Rd. /中山路476號), a lyrically pretty traditional courtyard-style residential complex with the green slopes of the mountain spur at its back. Built in the late Qing Dynasty in the old south China style brought over by the ancestors of the Taiwanese, before it is a large pond.
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Weekend in Taichung - Part 3 - Sun Moon Lake and Xiang Shan Visitor Center
In the 3rd and final part of our Weekend in Taichung vlog series, we take you on a cinematic trip to experience the natural beauty of Sun Moon Lake. We also feature my favorite building there; the Xiang Shan Visitor Center.
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日月潭 向山遊客中心 Xiangshan Visitor Center Sun Moon Lake Taiwan
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Cycling Down Taroko Gorge
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Travel in Lake Surrounding Bus, Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan
The round the lake bus runs from Shushie visitor center, Sun Moon Lake and goes all the way around the lake, as the name suggests. One day pass with unlimited rides also available. You can also pay by cash or EASY CARD. It covers most of the attractions in Sun Moon Lake area.
????????????Ruanqiao-Qingquan-GUANWU -- CLOUDS and FOREST :) (軟橋清泉觀霧)
Our latest trip took us to the forest recreation area of GUANWU in Hsinchu County. Great scenery, forest, and clouds!
01:00 - Ruanqiao Painted Village
03:40 - Its Alice Café and Food
05:40 - Qingquan
13:04 - Shei-pa Leisure Farm
23:35 - Guanwu Visitor Center
27:20 - Guanwu Waterfall
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Travel in Taiwan 2017/11/12
Cloud Country
An Uplifting Road Climb into the Snow Mountain Range
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Ruanqiao – Qingquan
Ruanqiao is a minor tourist draw, dubbed Ruanqiao Painted Village. Buildings and walls throughout are festooned with bright-paint cartoonish artworks crafted by locals, many delightfully whimsical, depicting local farm life, Ruanqiao historical vignettes, and matters undecipherable.
Stop in at the homey, breeze-whisked It’s Alice Café and Food, just off Highway 122. The amiable English-speaking proprietor serves Western foods; many of her recipes she picked up while on extended overseas adventures. Pretty much everything can be recommended, but dearest to this writer’s heart (I’m a repeat area visitor) are the German Fruit Curry and Spicy Italian Sausage & Cheese Sandwich.
Its Alice Café and Food
Add: No. 5-8, Neighborhood 1, Ruifeng Borough, Zhudong Township, Hsinchu County
(新竹縣竹東鎮瑞峰里1鄰5-8號)
Tel: (03) 594-9063
Qingquan is an Atayal-tribe community. The Atayal, inhabitants of the hilly terrain of northern Taiwan, are the island’s largest tribe by territory. Beside a large car park close to the river is a traditional Japanese-style dark-wood building that is today titled the Hall of Indigenous Peoples, home to displays on the Atayal and Saisiyat, a smaller tribe whose members also inhabit the Shangping watershed.
Back on Highway 122, above the aforementioned fork, is the Holy Cross Catholic Church. Fitted perfectly atop a high-promontory tip, it looks out serenely over the Qingquan attractions described above. The original church, built close to the river by missionaries who’d left mainland China after the Communist takeover, was destroyed during a typhoon a long time ago. Father Barry Martinson, a Jesuit raised in San Diego – and a well-known figure in Taiwan – came here 42 years ago after spending time among the Yami (Tao) tribe on Orchid Island.
Sheipa Leisure Farm
This high-mountain recreational farm is laid out in three tiers on an east-facing mountainside. Along the middle is the reception building, cabin/lodge-style accommodations, and another building housing the farm’s café, two restaurants, and DIY-experience facilities. On the upper tier are landscaped gardens and small greenhouses. On the lower are organic orchards and farm plots and a warehouse with the owner’s large collection of commissioned artworks sculpted from driftwood pieces.
The cabin-style rooms are spread out along pathways well away from the café/restaurant area to ensure privacy. All wood-themed rooms are stylishly modern, and equipped with full in-room bathroom/shower facilities. Each faces east, toward the sunrise.
Sheipa Leisure Farm (雪霸休閒農場)
Add: No. 380-1, Minshi, Taoshan Village, Wufeng Township, Hsinchu County
(新竹縣五峰鄉桃山村民石380-1號)
Tel: (03) 585-6192
Website: sheipa.com.tw
Guanwu Recreation Area
The spacious Guanwu Visitor Center is at the entrance of the recreation area. Bursting with information on park and region, with first-rate English, every second spent here will double your rewards when you probe on foot deeper.
The Guanwu Waterfall Trail starts beside a parking lot not far down the road beyond the visitor center. With a total length of 1.5km, it takes 1.5~2 hours to complete. Descend deep into a valley through a mix of broadleaf and fragrant coniferous forest, your reward found at trail’s end – the lofty Guanwu Waterfall. The trail has long, easy sections interspersed with steep stepped sections, the most demanding toward the bottom.
A short distance along the road past the waterfall-trail entrance is the starting-point of the short, easy 450m Honeymoon Path. This brings you to the head of Kuaishan Big Trees Trail, also reachable via another road from the Guanwu entrance. This 4km trail takes about 2.5 hours (return) to complete.
Former Residence of Zhang Xueliang 張學良故居
Guanwu Visitor Center 觀霧遊客中心
Guanwu Waterfall Trail 觀霧瀑布步道
Holy Cross Catholic Church 清泉天主堂
Qingquan 清泉
Ruanqiao Painted Village 軟橋彩繪村
Shei-Pa National Park 雪霸國家公園
Central Taiwan | Alishan Forest Railway
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Online ticket purchase only available for Taiwan National ID holders.
In person ticket purchase can be done 12 days in advance at Jiayi Train station. Limited tickets per day, would suggest to buy as early as possible.
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