Taipei: Yangmingshan & Beitou Hot Spring Day Tour

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Duration9h

GroupUp to 20

LanguagesEN · VI +3

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Volcanic Craters & Sulfur Steam: A Day in Taipei's Mountain Wilderness

You visit five major stops across Yangmingshan National Park and Beitou District—volcanic craters, hot springs, a geothermal valley, and a historic museum—with a local guide navigating the terrain and timing. A hot spring foot bath is included to ease the walking. The day ends with your choice of return location, either the starting MRT station or Shilin Night Market for evening food.

Step-by-step itinerary

Explore Yangmingshan and Beitou

Meet guide at MRT Zhongxiao Xinsheng
Travel to Yangmingshan National Park
Visit Qingtiangang lava terrace
Stop at Lengshuikeng hot spring area
Enjoy hot spring foot bath
Explore Xiaoyoukeng volcanic landscape
Visit Zhuzihu farming area and try local food
See Geothermal Valley steam fog
Tour Beitou Hot Spring Museum
Photograph Taipei Public Library Beitou Branch
Disembark at Shilin Night Market or MRT Zhongxiao Xinsheng

The Experience

Sulfur steam rises from cracks in the earth at Xiaoyoukeng, the volcanic heart of Yangmingshan National Park, and you're standing close enough to feel it on your skin. The park sits in the north of Taipei City, certified as the world's first Urban Quiet Park, and the day moves through its geological layers—lava terraces where water buffaloes still graze, a barrier lake formed by ancient eruptions, fumaroles that smell like a dormant volcano breathing. You meet your guide at MRT Zhongxiao Xinsheng Station and head straight into this landscape, no city noise behind you.

The walking is real—stairs, uneven ground, the kind of terrain that makes you grateful for comfortable shoes—but the stops are spaced so you're not exhausted between them. Qingtiangang comes first, a vast lava terrace where the ground itself tells the story of what happened here centuries ago. Then Lengshuikeng, where the hot spring water runs cooler than elsewhere (around 40 degrees Celsius), and you soak your feet in it, the warmth working into muscles that just climbed. Zhuzihu follows, a farming area hidden in the mountains where seasonal flowers grow because the soil is so fertile, and you can eat local mountain vegetables if you want to—cash only, like most places in Taiwan. The Beitou Geothermal Valley comes next, sulfuric steam so thick it earned the name "Hell Valley," and then the Beitou Hot Spring Museum, a two-storey Tudor-style building from the Japanese colonial period with a Tatami lobby and exhibits on how communal bathhouses worked.

Your last stop is Taipei Public Library Beitou Branch, a green building so striking it made lists of the world's most beautiful public libraries—people stop just to photograph it. After that, you can either return to MRT Zhongxiao Xinsheng Station or ask to be dropped at Shilin Night Market, Taiwan's most famous one, where you can eat street food and wander without the tour schedule pressing. The whole day is 7 hours or more, depending on how long you linger at each stop, and the guide handles the route and timing so you don't have to piece it together yourself.

What’s included

Your day includes a professional licensed tour guide, air-conditioned vehicle transport, a hot spring foot bath at Lengshuikeng, and entry to the attractions visited.
Hotel pickup and drop-off are available if you select the private option.
You'll visit Yangmingshan National Park's major sites—Qingtiangang, Lengshuikeng, Xiaoyoukeng, and Zhuzihu—plus the Beitou Geothermal Valley, Beitou Hot Spring Museum, and Taipei Public Library Beitou Branch.
At the end, you can return to MRT Zhongxiao Xinsheng Station or continue to Shilin Night Market.
Meals and drinks are not included, so bring cash for food and beverages along the way.

Good to know

Easy physical levelPublic transport nearbyNot for pregnant travelersNot for heart conditionsNot for back problemsInfants must sit on laps

Operated by Edison Travel Service

Is this one for you?Choose this tour if you want to see Yangmingshan's volcanic landscape and Beitou's hot spring culture without arranging transport or navigating between stops—the guide handles the route and pacing, leaving you free to walk, soak, and absorb the geology and history.