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Railway Attractions In Taiwan

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Taiwan , officially the Republic of China , is a state in East Asia. Its neighbors include the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. It is the most populous state and largest economy that is not a member of the United Nations. The island of Taiwan, formerly known as Formosa, was inhabited by aborigines before the 17th century, when Dutch and Spanish colonies opened the island to mass Han immigration. After a brief rule by the Kingdom of Tungning, the island was annexed in 1683 by the Qing dynasty, the last dynasty of China. The Qing ceded Taiwan to Japan in 1895 after the Sino-Japanese War. Wh...
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Railway Attractions In Taiwan

  • 1. Taipei Metro System Zhongshan District
    Zhongshan District is an administrative district of Taipei City, named after Sun Yat-sen, better known in Chinese as Sun Zhongshan.
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  • 2. Alishan Forest Railway Alishan
    The Alishan Forest Railway is an 86 km network of 2 ft 6 in narrow gauge railways running up to and throughout the popular mountain resort of Alishan in Chiayi County, Taiwan. The railway, originally constructed for logging, has become a tourist attraction with its unique Z-shaped switchbacks, and over 50 tunnels and 77 wooden bridges.
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  • 3. Taiwan High Speed Rail Nangang
    Taiwan High Speed Rail is a high-speed rail line that runs approximately 350 km , along the west coast of Taiwan, from the capital Taipei to the southern city of Kaohsiung. With construction managed by a private company, Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation , which also operates the line, the total cost of the project was NT$513.3 billion in 1998. At the time it was built, this was one of the world's largest privately funded rail construction schemes. The system is based primarily on Japan's Shinkansen technology. The line opened for service on 5 January 2007, with trains running at a top speed of 300 km/h , currently running from Nangang to Zuoying in as little as 1:45 hours, reaching almost 90% of Taiwan's population. Most intermediate stations on the line lie outside the cities served; ho...
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  • 5. Taipei Station Zhongzheng District
    Taipei or Taipei main station is a railway and metro station in Taipei, Taiwan served by Taiwan High Speed Rail, TRA and Taipei Metro. It is also connected to the terminal station of Taoyuan Airport MRT. In 2017, it was the busiest station on all three rail systems, with a total of 190 million entries and exits.
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  • 6. Songshan Airport Station Songshan
    Taipei Songshan Airport is a mid-size commercial airport and military airbase located in Songshan, Taipei, Taiwan . The airport covers an area of 182 hectares .The civilian section of Songshan Airport, officially Taipei International Airport , has scheduled flights to domestic destinations in Taiwan and international destinations including Seoul, Tokyo, and select cities in mainland China. Songshan serves only a small portion of the international flights for Taipei using the larger Taoyuan International Airport. Songshan Airport is also the base of certain Republic of China Air Force units as part of the Songshan Air Force Base . The Songshan Base Command's main mission is to serve the President and Vice President of the Republic of China.
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  • 7. Banqiao Station Banqiao
    Banqiao District is a district and the seat of New Taipei, Taiwan. It has the third-highest population density in Taiwan. It was formerly the 22nd-densest city in the world, with over 24,000 people per km2. Until the December 25, 2010 creation of New Taipei City, Banqiao was an incorporated county-controlled city and the former seat of Taipei County.
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  • 8. Kaohsiung Subway Kaohsiung
    Kaohsiung is a special municipality located in southern-western Taiwan and facing the Taiwan Strait. Kaohsiung has a population of approximately 2.77 million people and has been officially ranked as Taiwan's third most populous city since July 2017. It is Taiwan's largest municipality by area at 2,951.85 km2 , stretching from Mount Yu to Taiping Island. Since its start in the 17th century, Kaohsiung has grown from a small trading village into the political, economic, transportation, manufacturing, refining, shipbuilding, and industrial center of southern Taiwan. The Kaohsiung International Airport is the second largest airport in Taiwan. The Port of Kaohsiung is the largest harbor in Taiwan, but not officially part of Kaohsiung City. The southern terminal of Freeway 1 is in Kaohsiung. The ...
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  • 9. Xiangshan Station Xinyi District
    Xiangshan , also known as Elephant Mountain or Mount Elephant, is a mountain in Xinyi District, Taipei, Taiwan. It is close to the Taipei Metro Xiangshan Station. It is 183 m high and has a hiking trail about 1.5 km long. The Taipei 101 can be seen from the trail. The Six Giant Rocks are a tourist attraction in Xiangshan, and there are platforms for photographers.
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  • 11. Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall Station Zhongzheng District
    Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall is a metro station in Taipei, Taiwan served by Taipei Metro. It is a transfer station for Red line and Green line. While the memorial for which the station is named was embroiled in a naming dispute, the name of the station has remained unchanged.
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  • 12. Daan Park Station Da An
    Daan Forest Park or Da'an Park is a public park located near the centre of the Da'an District of Taipei, Taiwan. The park occupies twenty-six hectares and is bordered on its north, south, east and west by Xinyi Road, Heping Road, Jianguo Road and Xinsheng Road, respectively. The park is used by residents of Taipei as a green activity space and for various outdoor activities. The park was created in 1994 after the eviction of longtime squatters and the demolition of illegal buildings on municipal land, not by mayor Chen Shui-bian, as is often cited, but by his predecessor, Huang Ta-chou. Daan Forest Park was intended to play a similar role as other major city parks such as New York City's Central Park and London's Hyde Park, acting as the lungs of Taipei city and as respite for residents fr...
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  • 14. Yuanshan Station Datong
    Yuanshan is a metro station in Taipei, Taiwan served by Taipei Metro. It is a station on the Tamsui–Xinyi line. There was a station of the same name on the now-defunct Tamsui railway line.
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