🇹🇼 Family Trip to Taipei
My family and I visited Taipei in August, 2025. I hope other families visiting Taipei will find this helpful. You should get the 5 Day MRT Tourist Pass instead of the EasyCard because the Tourist Pass gives you unlimted rides. Don’t forget about the playgrounds for kids in the airport (see below for locations).
📌 Five Days in TaipeiPermalink
Day 1 — (Zoo & Dim Sum)Permalink
- Taipei Zoo 🐼 (bring passports for discount, look for giant pandas)
- Dim Sum for dinner
Day 2 — (Aquarium & Night Market)Permalink
- Xpark Aquarium in Taoyuan
(take the high speed rail, opens at 10 AM, look for capybaras) - Bug Playground & Restaurant
- Shilin Night Market
- Taipei Amusement Park (Shilin)
Day 3 — (Da’an & Syntrend)Permalink
Morning in Da’an:
- Insect/Reptile Museum
- Papabubble Candy Shop
- Mr. Tree Restaurant (bubble tea + playground)
- Kidsburgh Playground
- Da’an Forest Park (like Central Park in NYC, with playground)
Evening in Syntrend (near Taipei Main Station):
- Syntrend Mall (tech, gaming, toys, gadgets — check Floor 6 & 7)
- Don Don Donki (Japanese candy!)
Day 4 — (Museum & Xinyi)Permalink
- National Taiwan Museum + Land Bank Exhibition Hall (for dinosaurs)
Xinyi District:
- Nintendo Flagship Store (Xinyi Place, A11/A9 buildings)
- Big Lego Store (FEDS Xinyi A13, 3rd floor)
- FunBox Toys (A8 building, 5th floor, near Taipei 101)
Evening in Yulon City Mall / Yes!Life Mall:
- Food court for dinner?
- Wooderful Life
- Eslite Bookstore (largest branch, has kid’s craft classes)
- See a movie at Vieshow Cinema?
Day 5 — (Children’s Science Musuem & Underground Mall)Permalink
- National Taiwan Science Education Center (next to amusement park)
- Taipei Underground Mall (City Mall Y section)
✈️ Airport PlaygroundsPermalink
- New playground — Gate C5, Terminal 2
- LEGO playground — Terminal 2, 5F North Observation Deck
☕ Fun CafesPermalink
⛺ Indoor Things To DoPermalink
(great to beat the heat or if it’s raining)
🍦 Eat & DrinkPermalink
- Get bubble tea at Milksha
- Gelato Paradiso
- Nice Ice Cream
- Double V Gelato
- Snow King Ice Cream (unique flavors)
- Old school Taiwanese ice cream shop
- QSquare Mall (Cold Stone Creamery)
- Ji Pai (fried chicken steak, at night markets)
- Soup Dumplings at Hang Zhou Xiao Long Bao
- Coco, ComeBuyTea, Xin Fu Tang (fruit juice teas)
- Michelin Bib Gourmand pork buns (Rao He Night Market)
- Coffee in Yangmingshan
- Beef Noodle Places:
👀 Family-Friendly ExtrasPermalink
- Taiwan Toy Museum
- Kinokuniya Books (Breeze Center) (lots of English comics)
- Comic Trap
- Attimo Lego Café
- Huashan 1914 Creative Park
- Tianmu Sports Park (with fountains for kids)
- Taipei Summer Festival
- Zhang Mei Ama’s Farm (capybaras!)
- Taipei Waterpark
- Taipei Animate Store
- Arcade
- Capybara Knight (reservation needed)
- Taipei Main Public Library
- 3 Nice Parks:
🪀 Toy StoresPermalink
- Eslite Spectrum Nanxi
- Toys “R” Us (Zhongshan Lane Park)
- 101 Toy Kingdom
- DD Toy Town
- Wan Nian Building (Ximending)
🕹 Video Game StoresPermalink
- Guanghua Digital Plaza (7 floors)
- Taipei Main Station Underground Mall (multiple game stores)
🍭 Candy StoresPermalink
📖 New & Used BookstoresPermalink
- Eslite Songyan (GIANT bookstore)
- Mollie Used Books
- Bookman Books
- Caves Books
🍴 Family-Friendly RestaurantsPermalink
- God Guo Hot Pot
- Greenwood (Zhongzheng District)
- Mr. Tree
- Farmer’s Table
- Din Tai Fung
- Money Jump Fun & Restaurant