🎯 Activity
Shifen Old Street and the Sky Lanterns
You write a wish on a paper lantern and release it from a railway track that still has trains on it
Typical duration
75 min
Price
Lanterns NT$150-350 depending on colours
From port
30 km / 18.6 mi
Transfer time
110 min
Indoor / Outdoor
outdoor
Queue risk
medium
👨👩👧 Family friendly
🕐 Best time to visit
Any time the branch line runs; the lantern shops open with the first trains
Getting there from the port
Train to Ruifang, change to the Pingxi branch line for Shifen; the old street is beside the station
🚌 Best transport: train💶 Cost: NT$120 Pingxi day pass, sold at Keelung