Essential Taipei Travel Tips For Beginners - Your Ultimate Guide To Taiwan 2025
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Planning to Travel to Taipei Taiwan in 2025
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for the first time? This video is for you!
I have been to Taipei Taiwan over a dozen times and in this video contains tips (updated to 2025
Fantastic info. Many v thanks.
) that you NEED to know before heading there including the best time to visit, what to pack, how to get from Taoyuan Airport to Taipei City, how to use their public transportation and what to do in Taipei Taiwan!
There are CHAPTERS so feel free to skip around to the topics that are more interest, you can always watch the other parts later!
Thanks for this video man, going to see my ldr girlfriend, finally, and she said she will take care of me there but I want to make her life easier not get her into more pressure, this really I say thanks to you, everything has been clear of my doubts and questions. You sir are a life saver.
00:00 Introduction
01:48 Best Time To Visit Taipei Taiwan
Very informative, clear and concise. Thank you
02:50 Cheapest Time to Visit Taipei Taiwan
03:53 What to Pack for Your Trip to Taiwan
Thank you, perfect video! I'm French, and I've never been to Asia before ,Taiwan will be my first time. Now we need the skincare routine too 😝 I've subscribed to the channel. Keep up the amazing work!
05:48 Mobile Data Connection Options Taipei
07:57 Powerbanks
We have the same uniqlo jacket 😅 I survive Japan's winter in it ....
09:42 Apps You Need For Taipei Taiwan - Navigation and Language Barriers
11:22 Bring Cash (Taiwanese Dollars)
Thanks
11:47 Taiwan Entry Requirements
12:30 How To Get From Taoyuan to Taipei
Thank you, Steve. Subscribed. Can you buy the easycard at Taoyuan and use it for the Airport Express? Also can you top up the card with a foreign credit card? Hubby and I are planning a trip to Taiwan in October or November this year. So happy I found your video here. Will be checking more of your other videos for sure.
15:15 Buy an Easy Card Taiwan
16:01 Train Etiquette
First time to Taipei is different from first time traveling anywhere. These "tips" are ridiculous. You might as well advise people that they need a suitcase.
16:50 Drinking Taiwan Tap Water ?
17:08 Earthquakes
Thank you! Great video
17:23 Things to do and EAT in Taipei
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zero tips for taiwan, just basic tips smh
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Thank you for this helpful video! I’ll be flying to Taiwan in roughly 36 hours. 😆 Going through your tips/check list, it seems I’ve done everything that’s necessary.
I think my only worry is how to order food and drinks, because even if I can use Google Translate to figure out the available items, I still have no idea how to say my order. It might work at sit-in restaurants that give you a physical menu or places which have self-order terminals, but what about food stalls or coffee shops where the menu is without pictures and just hanging on the wall? 😓
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Lots of great tips. Thank you.
More User Perspectives
Beyond idiotic to recommend using airport bureaux de exchange. As in every other country in the world, for the last 20 years it's been massively cheaper to just withdraw from a free ATM with a zero fee card
@turkeyphantThanks for all the informative videos! Just wondering, how much cash would you recommend carrying in Taiwan - say, per day?
@LexiSauceExcellent content Steve! Thank you for so the good info!
@melanieriveiravargas7388By the way, where do you buy the foldable bag?
@carolinejaena9192Love this video. May 3rd time watching this video coz we’re planning to visit early spring 2026 during our visit in Japan.
@carolinejaena9192Super informative. Thank you!
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@Aching_wangnaoThank you thank you so much for this video! I actually saw the other video first then in that video you suggested to MUST WACTH this video first so I clicked out of there and looked for this specific video as you suggested. Since the other one is a supplement video. Planning to visit Taiwan for the first time!
@carolinejaena9192wow where are you from? so eloquent, and well on point. you can be a reporter. planning of traveling to taiwan in the future. doing a DIY thingy so I could do a convenient solo travel.
@gravity6729Where did you get the folded bag?
@dheiskie04I’m American living in Korea and I’m happy to see the train system is super similar to Korea. So I won’t have trouble getting around
@Sammies98Im Taiwanese. The tap water is NOT drinkable.
@labubuahbubuLoved the insights in this video!! I am going to Taipei July-August (not optimal haha) for language school and staying with a homestay family. I wanna call my parents while Im there and because of that wanted to ask if e-sims like with airalo also include some free phone call minutes? we alr checked out some providers but they only offered mobile data.
and do you know if these arrival cards are also provided during the flight or in the airport? I have had that be the case for a few destinations so I just wanted to check.
End dec around 20 until new year. It will be winter / autum?
@OrcuBeautyJust starting to plan a trip to Taiwan. You my first research stop
@davidsmiottawaThanks for the great video! We will visit Taipei shortly and your tips are really helpful.
@KaluolanUse a JisuLife fan insted of the one you showed it sooo much better.
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@aleksanderDERgrosseBACKPACKERThank you!! Very helpful! Subscribed! Now looking for local recommendations, not just touristy spots!
@sallyamiller4337Thank you for the comprehensive Taipei travel tips. I will be heading there first week of April and your videos are helpful. New subscriber here! :)
@renzvillarealI am a first-time visitor to Taiwan. My plan is to spend seven full days exploring Taipei, Tainan, and Kaohsiung, including day trips to Jiufen & Shifen and Sun Moon Lake. Am I being too ambitious?
@shahinpayani1998Can you share suggestions for travel into city of Taipei if coming into TSA-Songshan? Trains, express bus or cab?
@mhoskins4312Thanks for this video on Taiwan - quick question, do you have any accommodation recommendations?
@angmat999Just remember. It ALWAYS rains in Taipei
@iamwavingnotdrowningDo I need to buy a SIM card in Taiwan? I think my T-Mobile plan on my Samsung phone can still work overseas but idk if the speed is good. Would inserting the SIM card mess up my T-Mobile plan?
@jetabyss13why are we still using tap cards and not NFC on the phone?
@priceandprideThis is very helpful information! Thank you! How much cash would you recommend having on hand for a week of travel?
@aimzstitchesThank you Steve!
@theworldispeaceGoing to be heading to taiwan this month to study there for my
master’s for 4 months. I am super excited! Thank you for this great video! Super useful.
Whats your opinion to get purchase ticket online or ticket booth?
@aaimay9149Always love seeing Taiwan videos but one thing that drives me crazy is when YouTubers says Taipei=Taiwan:
Taipei - Seoul - Tokyo
Taiwan - S. Korea - Japan
Please stop saying going to Taipei is like going to Korea or Japan. Taipei is just a small part of Taiwan. Nobody says going to Tokyo is like visiting Japan, so visiting Taipei is not seeing Taiwan and Taipei is just a fraction of what everything Taiwan has to offer.
When charging your power bank, you showed some weird 3 prong plug. You should clarify that Taiwan uses basically the same 2 prong (or 3 prong grounded) plug and 110 volts as the United States (and other countries as well).
@stephengravning9478$5 from the TaoYuan airport to Taipei Main Station on the Purple line!
@rainbowpony425I was there during the major Earthquake last year. I was on the opposite side of the island so it was a minor rumble for me but I was at the epicentre a few days previously. First experience of an Earthquake so was kinda crazy.
@ellbo2Thanks for the vlog. I am currently planning my first trip and found your video quite helpful.
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