Taipei Travel

TAIPEI #39 (2025 Spring)

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Where to Enjoy Taipei's Springtime Floral Blooms
The Season's Very Best Festival Showcases

TEXT　Rick Charette
PHOTOS　Vision

Colors, colors, bright pastel colors everywhere! The people of Taipei – and all of Taiwan – developed the same love of flower viewing the Japanese are famed for during its Japanese era from 1895 to 1945. Throughout the year, the city's chorus line of blooms is always kaleidoscopic – here are key wheres and whens for planning this season's flower-appreciation outings.



Shan-Tseng-Chi Flower Festival 三層崎花海

The locale for this early spring happening is broad-hillside Shan-Tseng-Chi ("Three Tier Highland") in Beitou. Yangmingshan peaks rise up behind, and the city core's skyscrapers are far-off visible before. The hillside is festooned with long, undulating rows of cosmos, silver ragwort, zinnia, lavender, sage, nasturtium, and other rich-hue flowers, mimicking the famed sea of flowers at Furano in Japan's Hokkaido. Special yukata rental, hot-spring soaking, and Beitou cuisine experiences are also promoted.

📅January-March
🚩Ki-Pataw Shan-Tseng-Chi Park, Beitou District

Camphor Trail Flower Carnival 樟樹步道花海

The family-friendly Camphor Trail is located in the hills of Taipei's south in the Maokong area, famed for tea farms, farm-run teahouses, and tea-cuisine restaurants with terrific far-off city views. The trail area's floral scenery changes dramatically with the seasons: lupines (dull-ice flowers) in spring, cosmos flowers in summer, and sunflowers in autumn. The highly popular trail, located close to the metro-connected Maokong Gondola station, is part of Section 7 of the Taipei Grand Trail (taipeigrandtrailen.gov.taipei).

📅January-February (lupines), May-June (cosmos flowers), and September-October (sunflower).
🚩Camphor Trail, Maokong area, Wenshan District

Azalea Festival 台北杜鵑花季

The big venue for this florid fiesta is Taipei's tree-dense Daan Park in Daan District. The festival runs the full length of March. Beyond the admiring of the charming city flowers in splendid numbers along with lavender flowers and hydrangeas in strong supporting roles, festival activities include music concerts, guided tours, themed reading sessions, DIY handicraft classes, a creative market, and an outdoor cinema. Adding to the color are cute installation artworks placed among the flower beds, especially animal figures. Also happening in Daan Park during March is the Taipei Floral Picnic event (see page 4).

📅March
🚩Daan Park, Daan District

Taipei Rose Festival 台北玫瑰展

Pretty Xinsheng Park is the site for Taiwan's largest rose exhibition. It is one of the contiguous parks that make up the expansive Taipei Expo Park. Over 5,000 roses from 800 varieties sourced from around the globe are on display in a kaleidoscopic sea of color, the florascaping done in classical European garden style. The park's excellent children's playground and garden maze make this festival especially popular with young families.

📅March-April
🚩Xinsheng Park, Zhongshan District

Zhuzihu Calla Lily & Hydrangea Festival 竹子湖海芋及繡球花季

A special festival mention is the months-long Zhuzihu Calla Lily & Hydrangea Festival staged in picture-postcard Zhuzihu, a large depression high up on Yangmingshan filled with small cash-crop farms and numerous rustic farm-operated eateries (more on page 4).

📅March-June
🚩Zhuzihu area, Yangmingshan, Beitou District

For more information on these and other Taipei flower-appreciation parties, visit the "Flowers in Taipei" website: flowersfestival.taipei. For travelers not able to make it to these particular events, note that there is an abundance of floral beauty year-round in numerous efflorescent city green spots, most notably the abovementioned Yangming Park, Floriculture Experiment Center, CKS Shilin Residence, and Daan Park.