TAIWAN RAILWAY

The Taipei Railway station, the city's main railway station, serves all the major cities of the island (Chiayi, Hsinchu, Hualien, Kaohsiung, Taichung, Tainan, Taitung, Taoyuan), via four major lines: North, South, East and West. Taipei is connected to Kaohsiung (345 km) by an expressway which reduced the journey from 4 hours 30 to 1 hour 30. This high-speed train, which began operating in January 2007, now makes it possible to reach the major cities on the east coast from Taipei.