City: Tainan
Top Things to do in Tainan
Top Restaurants in Tainan
- 1. Corner Steak House
- 2. A Yu Fresh Beef Shabu Shabu
- 3. Chamonix Teppanyaki (Tainan Gongyuan S. Branch)
- 4. Wen Zhang Beef Soup
- 5. Tan Zuo Ma Li Grill & Japanese Restaurant Tainan
- 6. A Tang Salty Rice Congee
- 7. Chamonix Teppanyaki (Tainan Yonghua Branch)
- 8. Cafe at Far Eastern-Shangri-La's Far Eastern Plaza Hotel
- 9. Jade Buffet Restaurant
- 10. ikki (Rende Zhongshan Branch)
Top 10 Free Things to do in Tainan, Taiwan
One of Taiwan's oldest cities and the former capital, Tainan is a modern city of commerce and trade, history and culture. It is also a religious center, with more than a thousand temples (including Taiwan’s first Confucian temple) plus frequent festivals and parades. Visit Guohua Street to sample Taiwanese specialties and local markets. Discover Taiwan’s people and past at The National Museum of History. Chimei Museum includes beautiful gardens and a private collection of art and musical instruments.
Restaurants in Tainan
1. National Cheng Kung University
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 200 reviews
Reviewed By happytraveller33359 - Cebu Island, Philippines
The university has a long history and one of the best universities in Taiwan. This university has a huge land area with matured trees and historic buildings dotted in the east side of Tainan Station. People from the city or even tourists are allowed on the premises to enjoy walking. One of the gardens they have there is called “Banyan Garden”, which is on Google Map. Once you are there, you can easily spot this huge banyan tree planted by an emperor of Japan some 100 years ago. This beautiful tree provides good shades and views for the students to enjoy their break times or circle activities. Nice spot to relax while exploring the city.
2. Luermenma Temple
3. Jingzaijiao Tile - Paved Salt Fields
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 93 reviews
Reviewed By BreakawayAgain - Australia Plains, Australia
I arrived at the salt fields just before 5pm. The sun was starting to set and the scene of it was beautiful. Salt was piled up in sections throughout the field. Most of the sections were prohibited from entering. Nevertheless there were some sections with tools and salt for people to experience salt farm ploughing. The sunset scene (5:30-6pm) was so pretty that either mobiles or cameras could easily take nice photos of it. Unfortunately there was a bit of thick cloud near the horizon, I couldn’t see the sunset till the end.
4. Nankun Nidai Tianfu
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 49 reviews
Reviewed By dudeman8
NanKunShen represents the best paintings and relief art, sculptures, and Porcelain works of any temple I have visited in South East Asia. The sheer variety and high quality of works is staggering. We enjoyed reliefs and stories behind them of the original temple to the main Wang Di Ye temple. You will want a trained guide to tell you stories such as the brothel owner from Banchiao who donated a "lou-ti" wall panel with his name to tell temple goers where to go for fun. Ying Zai Gung (Wan Shen Ye) is small but important to pray to as recommended by Guan Shi Yin because it was his land where he tended cows that became this temple with 5 Wang Ye (gods). Ling Shao Bao Dian is behind, it has modern era art depictions, which include a painting of Yankee pitcher and World Series winner, Wang Jian Min. It is filled with unique master works including the porcelain tableau sculptures on roofs and the largest cast ceramic wall relief of Yu Wang Da Di and his followers, which is an amazing piece. My favorite is the Jade picture of 100 loyal ministers of the emperor, which features a rainbow made of jade on either side of made of eight different colors of jade. It cannot be replicated those jades are so rare.
5. Beehive Firecrackers
6. Tainan Park
7. Garden Night Market
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 440 reviews
Reviewed By PinkPomelo - Singapore, Singapore
This place is BUSTLING! So much to see and eat. There's so much variety of street food and sit-down stalls. The food is delicious and compared to the markets in Taichung and Hualien, the prices here are slightly cheaper. Be prepared for the crowds at dinner time. It can get packed and walking the food section can feel a little like salmon trying to swim up stream. That's all part of the fun experience. It means everyone, locals and tourists alike, are all going there. Tip: go there after 9.30pm and the crowd at the food section would have eased up slightly.
8. Fire and Water Spring
9. Yujing
10. Ji Dian Wu Miao
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