Chapter 01
The night market is the kitchen
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Destination · Taiwan
Taipei, Taiwan
The city that never finished arriving
Taipei runs on scooters, night markets, and a restlessness that feels less like ambition than metabolism.
11 chapters ahead
Climate
Subtropical and humid — winters are mild and drizzly, summers are genuinely hot and wet, with typhoon season running June through October
Best season
October through December: the humidity breaks, the mountains clear, and the city feels like itself without the weather arguing
Atmosphere
- urban-dense
- mountain
- tropical
- nocturnal
- culinary
- artsy
- literary
- spiritual
- cosmopolitan
- colonial-layered
- post-industrial
- design-forward
- walkable
- intense
- lush
The chapters
11 ways to get lost here
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Chapter 02
The temple stays open at midnight
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Chapter 03
The old capital remembers differently
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Chapter 04
Two cities that industrialized their night
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Chapter 05
The mountain is always closer than you think
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Chapter 06
The scooter is the unit of measurement
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Chapter 07
The café is the third workplace
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Chapter 08
The art lives in the old factories
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Chapter 09
The island has been everyone's project
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Chapter 10
Ghost Month empties the beaches
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Chapter 11
The bookshops are a form of resistance
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Keep wandering
You’ve finished Taipei. Where next?
Pull a thread at random, fall into the world map, or step back to the front door for the latest dispatches.