Taiwan Trip 2012- Taipei Main Station
After we settled our accomodation, we walked to the Xi Men Ding MRT station to head to Taipei Main Station as we wanted to get to a train to Jiu Fen.
For our convenience sake we bought a Easy Card (minimum value 500NTD) or more commonly known in Malaysia, a Touch n Go card. This card can be used at all train stations, buses as well as 7-11 convenience stores (T&C applied of course).
Taipei Main Station being the main hub of transportation in Taipei houses the Taipei Metro Line (MRT 捷運), Taipei Rail Adminstration （火車）, Taiwan High Speed Rail (高鐵) as well as the Taipei Bus Station. Be sure to get familiar with the terms otherwise you are screwed when looking for the correct place to go to. This station is also next door to a couple of shopping malls and some underground ones, making its area very very vast and quite easy to get lost if you don't know your way. As a golden rule, ask a passerby whenever in doubt. Most of the time they will be glad to ask you, or direct you to someone who knows better.
Taking the train (Not MRT) may be quite a challenge. First of all you have to know what is the last destination that your train will be stopping. I believe this is the same concept in other parts of the world. But having all the names in Chinese just makes it very much complicated. Not forgetting that there are so many different platforms to get on as well.Those who can't understand chinese will find a very hard time reading the timetable. Then there are the express trains (自強號/營光號), and trains which stop at every station (區間).
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For our convenience sake we bought a Easy Card (minimum value 500NTD) or more commonly known in Malaysia, a Touch n Go card. This card can be used at all train stations, buses as well as 7-11 convenience stores (T&C applied of course).
Easy Card & Meet Taiwan Card
Taipei Main Station being the main hub of transportation in Taipei houses the Taipei Metro Line (MRT 捷運), Taipei Rail Adminstration （火車）, Taiwan High Speed Rail (高鐵) as well as the Taipei Bus Station. Be sure to get familiar with the terms otherwise you are screwed when looking for the correct place to go to. This station is also next door to a couple of shopping malls and some underground ones, making its area very very vast and quite easy to get lost if you don't know your way. As a golden rule, ask a passerby whenever in doubt. Most of the time they will be glad to ask you, or direct you to someone who knows better.
Main hall area
Taking the train (Not MRT) may be quite a challenge. First of all you have to know what is the last destination that your train will be stopping. I believe this is the same concept in other parts of the world. But having all the names in Chinese just makes it very much complicated. Not forgetting that there are so many different platforms to get on as well.Those who can't understand chinese will find a very hard time reading the timetable. Then there are the express trains (自強號/營光號), and trains which stop at every station (區間).
Special zone for the females
But once you get the gist of it, it will be quite easy to move around. :D Trains apart, this place also houses the underground shopping mall. The area is quite huge that I got lost while trying to navigate my way around to find the ticket counter to buy tickets to Yeh Liu. There is also a very huge area dedicated to luggage storing underground so travellers can store their luggages in the various lockers (ranging from all kinds of sizes) while they move to other parts of Taiwan.
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