New Taipei City Travel

Ruifang, New Taipei City has a well-known travel route, including places like Shuinandong, Jinguashi and Jiufen, known as “Shui-Jin-Jiu”, which means “staying gorgeous for a long time” in Taiwanese. The places are about a ten-minute ride from Ruifang Station and you will reach Jinguashi and Shuinandong first. Here you can experience the mountainous town filled with a cultural and artistic atmosphere and admire their reserved gorgeousness. Then you can experience the mining tunnel, walk along the Japanese style dormitories, and touch the world’s largest golden brick at the “Gold Museum” to understand the mining history here. By the end of the day, you can go to the misty and drizzling romantic “Jiufen Old Street” to enjoy tea and gourmet food.

Jinzibei Historic Trail’s starting point at the Mudan end is the same as that of Canguangliao Historic Trail; Canguangliao exits from Jinguashi, while Jinzibei hiking trail exits from Houtong. After getting off from Shisanceng Old Tree Stop, walk for 15 minutes and you will arrive at “Jinzibei Historic Trail Entrance/Exit”. Along the Trail, visitors will come upon century-old historic sites of Jinzibei and Fengxianshijin Tablet; the total distance of the Trail is approximately 3.4km, and it takes about 2.5 hours to finish walking the Trail. The Trail is mainly made of stone path and stone stairs, which will take some energy to finish the route; but the lush green woods give refreshing coolness along the way. After exiting the Trail, visitors will connect to Jiuqiongqiao Rd. and then Houtong Rd. if they continue going straight. And going further down, visitors will see Ruisan Coal Transporting Bridge and Ruisan Coal Preparation Plant. Walking into the “Vision Hall” transformed from previously the coal preparation warehouse, visitors will have an in-depth experience of the old-time glory of Houtong’s coal mining industry as well as an overview of the local coal mining development through the introduction provided inside the Vision Hall. The other key feature of Houtong would have to be “Cat Village”! Walking over Houtong Cat Bridge, and visitors will arrive at cat lovers’ “promised land” – Cat Village. Let us kindly remind all visitors to follow the rules here, and please do not hit, feed, disturb, or pet the cats, and please do not free your cats here and do not litter. Let’s safeguard this precious “cats’ heaven” together as we enjoy a healing holiday and wander amidst the historic paths.