Taipei Travel Hacks: LRT MRT

Sometimes finding a seat on one of the subway/metro/light rail in Taiwan is like winning the lottery, while also being packed like sardines.

Depending on logistics I.e how long/far you need to go, this hack will almost always guarantee you a nice seat .

TLDR: take a train to the terminal station. As everyone gets off, pick your seat.

I’ll use our current trip as an example.

We need to go from suburb of Tamsui (North) to the southern part of Taipei to visit my grandfather’s resting site.

So we take the LRT down to terminal/transfer station. From here we get on the MRT. We could go straight down to Taipei from here. There are a few seats open, but YS and I want to sit together. so we just go the other way to the terminal stop at Tamsui MRT station. It also only one stop away.

Once we get there we watch everyone most people (ok well I guess other people figured this obvious hack out too) get off.

I don’t actually mind standing for 90 min on the MRT, but when you are carrying a lot of crap or have the kids with you, this is a life saver.

Happy sitting!