How we source Taipei 資料來源
Love Taipei is built around evergreen planning advice — routes, neighborhood logic, pacing, and the texture of each place — the kind of guidance that stays true year to year. For the details that do change (opening hours, fares, ticket prices, and event dates), we check primary Taiwanese sources and tell you to do the same close to travel time. Individual guide and attraction pages link the specific official page they draw on; the documents below are the ones we come back to most.
Getting around
- Taipei Metro (metro.taipei)MRT lines, fares, first/last train times, and station maps — the source of truth for everything we say about the Red, Blue, Green, Orange, and Brown lines.
- EasyCard (easycard.com.tw)How the stored-value card works on MRT, buses, and many shops — the card we tell every visitor to tap.
- Taiwan Railways (railway.gov.tw)TRA timetables and fares for day trips down the coast and out to Pingxi, Houtong, and Yilan.
- Maokong Gondola (gondola.taipei)Operating hours, maintenance closures, and the crystal-cabin schedule.
Official tourism listings
- Travel Taipei (travel.taipei)The Taipei City government's tourism portal — our most-used reference for attraction hours, addresses, and seasonal events inside the city.
- New Taipei Travel (newtaipei.travel)The equivalent for New Taipei City — Jiufen, Pingxi, Yehliu, Tamsui, Wulai, and the rest of the day-trip belt.
- Taiwan Tourism (taiwan.net.tw)The national Tourism Administration site for anything that reaches beyond greater Taipei.
Museums & major attractions (official)
- National Palace Museum (npm.gov.tw)Ticketing, closed days, and rotating-exhibition notes for the NPM.
- Taipei Fine Arts Museum (tfam.museum)Current shows, admission, and the Monday-closure pattern for TFAM.
- Taipei 101 (taipei-101.com.tw)Observatory hours and tickets for the landmark we lean on for skyline timing.
What we verify, and what stays evergreen
We try not to turn Love Taipei into a directory of external links. Most pages keep you on-site for planning, with outbound links only where there is a single source of truth — tickets, official hours, or a government announcement. Wikipedia is used for stable historical background (when a temple was founded, who designed a landmark), never for prices or hours. Before a trip, it is worth a two-minute check on:
- Opening hours and last-entry / last-train times.
- Reservation, timed-ticket, or capacity rules.
- Seasonal closures, lunar-calendar festival dates, and weather or typhoon advisories for the day trips.