Tea region map
Taipei Tea Region
Where Taiwanese Tieguanyin starts
About this region
WhereZhinan Village in Muzha (along Zhinan Road); Nangang, next to Xizhi and Shiding
ScaleMuzha: about 100 ha, 60,000 kg a year, around 100 farming households. Nangang sits at 200–300 m
Cultivars and characterMuzha's climate and soil suit Tieguanyin unusually well; the city runs a demonstration centre and visitor gardens there. Nangang is an old Baozhong district with a tea-making demonstration works, and enough else nearby to make a day of it.
NearbyTaipei 101, the Maokong gondola, Longshan Temple, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, the National Palace Museum, Yangmingshan National Park
These figures will be updated if they change.
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Plants grown here2
What there is to do here
2 routes Day trip Maokong・Nangang
There are tea gardens inside Taipei city limits, which is reason enough to go up once. The gondola puts you on the tea hills forty minutes out of downtown; in Nangang the osmanthus flowers in autumn and the whole hill road smells of it.