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V. Around Taipei

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dot Tihua Street dot Kungkuan dot Yungkang Street dot Taipei Railway Station
dot Ta-an Forest Park dot Tienmu dot Shihta dot The Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall
dot Kuanghua Market dot Shihlin dot The Eastern District dot The Weekend Jade and Flower Markets
dot Yuan Shan dot Neihu dot The Sungshan Area dot Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall
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4. Taipei Railway Station

story photoJust north of the 2-28 Peace Park, you can enter a little area of cram schools and coffee shops, where students from all over Taiwan congregate to study furiously for their college entrance exams. Continuing north, you'll reach the shops, department stores and luxury hotels surrounding the Taipei Railway Station.

The station is the hub of traffic throughout northern Taiwan, connecting all the train lines departing the capital with the Tamsui MRT line, buses to points throughout the greater metropolitan area, and express buses to Taoyuan's CKS International Airport. As you might expect, its a beehive of activity almost any time.

Directly opposite Chunghsiao West Road is northern Taiwan's tallest building, the Shin Kong Life Insurance Building, home of the upscale Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Department Store. Towering above the rest of the Taipei skyline, the building features an observatory on the top story. Next door to the Mitsukoshi is the Asia World Department Store, and next to it, the Hilton Hotel.

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