Visiting Tainan City and Tainan Country? If you have some time to explore, there are quite a few interesting things for you to see. Following is a list of suggested things to do with an outline for a visit itinerary.
A word of caution before I begin – while there’s alot to do I would say Tainan is not for everyone and not your typical world-class tourist destination. I remember an American professor who summarized his Tainan City visit saying "they took me to the best Tainan City historic attractions and it took exactly 10 minutes for me to go through the whole thing". But, if you’re passionate about Taiwan’s history and local temple culture – then you’ll enjoy Tainan alot, as I have.
Walking tour – Tainan Park, Chikan Towers, Matsu and Official God of War temple
Walking tour – Southern Gate, Wufei Temple, Koxinga Cheng Gong Shrine, Chikan Towers (more about Koxinga Shrine)
Anping
- Eternal Golden Castle, Old Merchant’s House, Tree House.
- Dutch Fort Zeelnadia, Golden Beach, Anping beach, weekend market
- (More about Eternal Golden Castle, Anping Beach and Anping Tree House)
An Nan
Tainan City Temple celebrations
If you’re into temple celebrations, Tainan’s definitely a crazy place during the summer. Try to visit around the local Daoist holidays, you won’t believe your eyes.
Another weekend in Tainan : Another God has a birthday
More from the Taiwanese temple celebration madness in Tainan
Taiwan temples celebrate 300 years for the Tainan Koxinga temple
(from Hanjie’s blog – a Tainan based blogger)
Looking for places to eat/drink/hangout? other things to do at night? try "Loving Tainan" i-Tainan Tainan City Guide.

Chimei Corporation private art museum
Guanziling – Fire in Water, Stone Baked Chicken and Hot Springs
Madou Dai Tien Wu Wang Temple – Five God’s Heaven and Hell
Touring beautiful Tainan : the Tainan City hot spots tourism guide videos
many more Tainan videos on i-Tainan.
Other tourism related posts about Tainan City :
Tainan’s 2008 Dragon Boat Festival
Touring Tainan made easy : The Tainan tourist guiding boards
IT Business in Taiwan : The Tainan Science Park
Touring Tainan : The oldest tea shop in Taiwan
Sights and sounds from the 2007 Tainan International Chihsi Qixi Arts Festival
A night around Tainan : Tainan Culture Center & live music at Pioneer Pub
Touring Tainan County Baoan : The Taiwan Holocaust Museum
60 years of Israeli independence celebrated at the Tainan County Holocaust museum
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wow! what a wonderful place! i never thought that Tainan City have that breathtaking beauty. I will visit the place too. I want to witness the true beauty of the place i want to see them not only on pictures but in reality. I will need again the good deals of LMT.
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Great! Thank for information, I'm looking for it for a long time,
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Last Minute Hotels | June 16th, 2010 at 6:03 am #
Taiwan have a beautiful and admiring environment. No doubt a lot of people want's to go in this place but as always they will prefer for a great travel deal so that they can come to that country. Those tourist attraction is one of the target to be seen by most of the people that who really love to go in Taiwan. I've been there last year and I go to Tainan, I love what I see everywhere in that city. Really wonderful and amazing.
Social Media Pricing | June 16th, 2010 at 9:48 am #
Pics looks too good, would love to visit the country..
francis | July 19th, 2010 at 3:00 pm #
this place reminds me of siemreap last week i went there with my friends and we had so much fun. and i think that when we go here in Tainan we would experience the fun we had in siemreap.
Anonymous | August 19th, 2010 at 2:26 pm #
From your article I’ve come to understand that Taiwan is for those who love the nature and the sparkles of an unbelievable culture. What is the time of the year that will make the best of it? I understood from a friend that it’s not indicated to visit this country in September or October. He told there some kind of big celebrations and that all that rumour and throng of people spoiled his vacation.
Anonymous | August 23rd, 2010 at 3:53 pm #
When are the local Daoist holidays? Isn’t then a little too crowdy?
Fili | August 24th, 2010 at 1:27 am #
Johanna Brooke – it’s best to keep track of “Love Tainan (http://www.itainan.org) and the Tainan Bulletin to see when the local holidays are. Crowdy in Taiwan, IMHO, is just another way of saying “fun”. Crowded is great, it means there’s more action.