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Taipei · 3 days · 14 stops · 15% local · ~12.4 km walked (~16,500 steps) · relaxed pace

Temples, the imperial collection, hot-spring steam and the 101 skyline — Taipei's big hitters in three unhurried days.

Day 1

~5 km · ~6,600 steps

Longshan Temple early with the worshippers, Ximending as it wakes up, CKS Memorial for the late-afternoon guard change.

~5h

Oldest Taipei to loudest Taipei in a ten-minute walk

Longshan Temple
1738 temple thick with incense — Taipei's spiritual heart, busiest at dusk.
Bopiliao Historic Block
Preserved Qing-and-Japanese-era street — red brick arcades and pop-up exhibits.
The Red House
Octagonal 1908 theater turned craft market and café — Ximending's anchor.
Ximending Pedestrian Zone
Neon-soaked youth quarter — street performers, sneaker shops, milk tea everywhere.

~3h

Monumental boulevards and park pavilions

Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall
Monumental white hall over Liberty Square — catch the hourly guard change.
228 Peace Memorial Park
Quiet pavilions and banyans on the site of Taiwan's pivotal 1947 history.

Day 2

~0.7 km · ~1,000 steps

Palace Museum at opening (two hours max — pick a floor), Beitou early afternoon for a soak, end at Shilin Night Market hungry.

~8h

Imperial treasures, then sulfur steam in the hills

National Palace Museum
The imperial Chinese collection — jadeite cabbage and 8,000 years of craft.
Beitou Hot Spring Museum
Elegant 1913 bathhouse telling the story of Taipei's onsen culture.
Beitou Thermal Valley
Steaming jade-green spring pool — sulfur mist drifting through the trees.
Shilin Night Market
Taipei's biggest night market — go hungry, follow the longest queues.

Day 3

~6.7 km · ~8,900 steps

Long Yongkang lunch, then Elephant Mountain 90 minutes before sunset — watch 101's lights come on from the boulders.

~4h

The eating district

Yongkang Street
The eating street: beef noodle shrines, mango ice, and the original Din Tai Fung.
Daan Forest Park
Taipei's Central Park — egret ponds and weekend picnic culture.

~4h

Glass towers and the classic skyline hike

Taipei 101
The bamboo-shoot supertall — observatory up top, food court basement below.
Elephant Mountain Traillocal
Twenty sweaty minutes of stairs for the classic 101 skyline shot at dusk.

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