The collections
Taiwan, region by region
Fifteen independent guides, organised into four regional collections. Each opens with a flagship guide and a cluster of deeper reads around it.
the Taipei Collection
Taipei
The capital, in full - luxury, neon, night markets and old-town heritage.
The pillar guideTaipei
The Taipei Guide
From a marshy basin the Qing barely governed to one of Asia's great cities - the complete guide to Taipei: its soul, its districts, its rituals, and the hidden corners only locals know.
Read the Taipei guideXinyi, Taipei
Xinyi luxury & the 101 skyline
Beitou, Taipei
Beitou thermal serenity: a luxury hot spring circuit
Ximending, Taipei
Ximending after dark: neon lights & urban culture
Taipei
A foodie's guide to Raohe Night Market
Jiufen (near Taipei)
Hidden tea houses of Jiufen
Dadaocheng, Taipei
Taipei transit & heritage: the Dadaocheng walk
the Central Taiwan Collection
Central Taiwan
Design, coffee and the high-mountain heart of the island.
The pillar guideCentral Taiwan
Central Taiwan: the sensory profile of mists and modernity
Mist over a highland lake and a city of audacious architecture - central Taiwan is where the island slows down and looks up. A definitive guide to its waters, its design and its tea.
Read the Central Taiwan guide
the Tainan Collection
Tainan & the South
Taiwan's oldest city - its culinary alleys and its old-meets-new design.
The pillar guideTainan
Tainan: culinary archaeology & the architecture of memory
Taiwan's oldest city is a layered dig - older recipes, older streets, older gods than anywhere else on the island. A definitive guide to Tainan's culinary archaeology and architecture of memory.
Read the Tainan & the South guidethe Kaohsiung & Coast Collection
Kaohsiung & the Coast
Marble gorges, Pacific cliffs and a harbour city reborn through art.
The pillar guideSouth & East Coast
The scenic south & east: architectural isolation and harbour renaissance
Where the mountains run into the Pacific and a working port reinvents itself as art - a definitive guide to Taiwan's wild east coast and its harbour-city renaissance in the south.
Read the Kaohsiung & the Coast guide
