Explore Taipei on a budget - MRT 1-Day Pass [Travel in Taiwan 170716: The 150 Taiwan Dollar Challenge]

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150 New Taiwan Dollars (NTD).  You
can wander in Taipei with this small amount of money.  But if you are going to spend it for food,
then two orders of 7-Eleven Spaghetti plus red tea for drinks would solve your problem for lunch and dinner.
Loading an adult EasyCard with NTD 150 will also allow you to board the bus ten times for short distance
rides.  At an exchange rate of 1 NTD = 1.67 PHP, it is equivalent to 250 pesos and 28 centavos.
One hundred fifty Taiwan Dollars. A small amount of money but it can get you to many places.
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style="text-align: center;">At the ticket booth
of MRT Nangang Station. 
Travel Buddy Rob asking about the 1 Day Pass.
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style="text-align: center;">The Taipei MRT 1-Day Pass with its Summer Universiade design
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Thanks to Taipei MRT's 1-Day Pass, anyone
can go around the city without the fear of spending so much. You can see the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall,
feel the heat of the hot spring in Beitou or even have a selfie at Taipei 101 even though you are on a tight
budget. All for just NTD 150! Add your lunch and dinner to your budget and you can form a travel plan that
suits your need.

style="text-align: justify;">Travel Buddy Rob joined me in this budget saver adventure. We visited
many tourist spots in a span of fewer than 12 hours starting at 12:15 pm. For first-timers, it might be difficult
to travel in Taipei in just a short amount of time. But with a well-planned itinerary before coming to Taiwan,
exploring Taipei is just a piece of cake. You don't even need a pocket wifi to bring with you!
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There
are different kinds of Taipei Pass ranging from a single-day ticket to ones bundled with a Maokong Gondola
trip and unlimited bus ride. Prospective visitors in Taiwan sometimes could not decide on which type of card
to buy either if they would just use an EasyCard which has a balance to maintain or take advantage of an
unlimited day pass. It all depends on the places that you want to visit. 

If you want to
wander in the National Palace Museum then you will need to ride a bus. A roundtrip from MRT Shilin Station
will costs NTD 30 so a day pass with unlimited bus rides in Taipei and New Taipei City will be practical.
This special kind of one-day ticket card costs NTD 180 and is best for itineraries that require transferring
from an MRT to a public vehicle. Take note that in order to fully appreciate the collections in the National
Palace Museum you will need at least 3 hours to read and get to know all of China's greatest treasures
that are being kept in Taiwan.

style="text-align: justify;">If you are also interested to see Taipei Zoo then riding the Maokong
Gondola is highly recommended. Like the National Palace Museum, its size is too big to explore in a day.
The Taipei Pass which includes the Maokong Gondola can help save a lot of money. However, there is a catch
for this kind of one-day ticket. The operations of the cable car can be suspended anytime if there is a strong
wind or a threat of a thunderstorm. Buy this card if you want to lose money. Haha! The best thing to do is
to just buy the tickets at the cable car station. In this way, you will have the liberty to adjust your itinerary
depending on the weather advisory for Muzha District. You will know that you cannot ride the cable car when
the TV screens in the platforms of the Taipei MRT flashes a bad news about the operations of the Maokong
Gondola. 

style="text-align: justify;">See below our itinerary. We wanted to maximize our 1-Day Pass so
we went to many places as fast as we could. Major attractions like Taipei 101, Chiang-kai Shek Memorial Hall
and Sun-yat Sen Memorial Hall were part of the travel plan. To check if we really saved money, I calculated
the actual fare for each MRT ride that we made.

Start
@ 12:15 pm

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/>[1] Nangang Station → Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall Station: NTD 20

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style="text-align: center;">The Visitor Information Center at Taipei Main Station. 
The nearest MRT exit to this tourist center is Exit M5.
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style="text-align: center;">For our lunch, we bought "pientang" at this store in the
ground floor of Taipei Main Station.

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style="text-align: center;">Travel Buddy Rob and I opted for this NTD 60 "pientang". 
/>[2] Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall Station → Taipei Main Station: NTD 16

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[4] Longshan Temple Station → Ximen Station: NTD 16

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[6] Zhongshan Station → Minquan West Road
Station: NTD 16

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[7] Minquan West Road Station → Beitou
Station: NTD 24
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style="text-align: justify;">The old Xinbeitou Station.  Back in the days when there
was no still MRT,  a TRA line runs along the route of the current Tamsui-Xiangshan MRT route. 
Of course there was also a TRA Xinbeitou line! When the MRT was constructed, this Japanese-style building
with its eye-catching windows at its roof was dismantled and then transferred to Changhua.  After
many years of cultural protest, it is now back again at Xinbeitou.  [ rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google Map]
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style="text-align: center;">Beitou Stream.  Back in December 2014, you can dip your
fee here.  Now, you cannot! 

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[8] Beitou Station → Xinbeitou Station: NTD 16

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[9] Xinbeitou Station → Beitou Station: NTD 16

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style="text-align: center;">sunset at Tamsui [ rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google Map]
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[10] Beitou Station → Tamsui Station: NTD 24

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style="text-align: center;">One of the games here in Shilin Night Market.  You just
have to make the bottle stand to win a prize. 
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style="text-align: center;">That is if you can! Haha!
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style="text-align: center;">Shilin Night Market [ rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google Map]
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[11] Tamsui Station → Jiantan Station: NTD 32

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style="text-align: center;">CKS Memorial Hall at night [ rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google Map]
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[12]
Jiantan Station → Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall Station: NTD 20

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style="text-align: center;">Taipei 101.  We did not enter inside.  [ href="https://www.google.com.tw/maps/place/Taipei+101,+No.+7,+Section+5,+Xinyi+Road,+Xinyi+District,+Taipei+City,+110/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x3442abb6da9c9e1f:0x1206bcf082fd10a6?sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjG3dHqodrWAhXCi5QKHchuAVoQ8gEImgEwEQ"
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style="text-align: center;">Another attraction beside Taipei 101 is the Moon Bus. 
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[13] Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall Station
→ Taipei 101/ World Trade Center Station: NTD 16

[14] Taipei World Trade Center Station → Daan Station: NTD 16

style="text-align: center;">[15] Daan Station → Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center Station: NTD
24

Back at home!
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Taipei
MRT 1-Day Pass: NTD 150
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Lunchbox at Taipei
Main Station: NTD 60
Stinky tofu: NTD 50 (shared with Rob)
Oyster omelet: NTD 60 (shared with Rob)
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Total expenses
if we used an Adult EasyCard: NTD 403 {288 + 110/2
(dinner) + 60 (lunch)}
Total expenses with the Taipei 1-Day Pass: NTD 265 { style="color: blue;">150 + 110/2 (dinner) + 60 (lunch)}
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If we had used an adult EasyCard, our total expense
for our MRT rides would be NTD 288. We could have
also explored more tourist attractions if we had started as early as 6:00 am when the Taipei MRT opens. The
earlier, the better! Even though we started at noon at least we were able to save some money with our 1-Day
Pass. That’s the aim of most travelers in Taiwan. To see a lot of places in one day without spending so much.
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So are you excited now to visit Taipei? Get
ready to pack your bags as soon as the visa-free grant for Filipinos and other Southeast Asians become official.
Get to know this country as you familiarize yourselves with the different attractions of the capital through
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