Taipei City Mall – Taipei Main Station’s Underground Mall

Taiwan’s largest underground street located directly beneath Taipei Main Station, Taipei City Mall is Taipei’s top underground mall and a sublime place for subterranean shopping (perfect when it is raining in Taipei).

This huge Taipei shopping mall is the longest underground street in Taipei (and Taiwan) with nearly 200 stores across almost 1km underground – it runs all the way from Taipei Main Station to Beimen MRT Station.

The mall is divided into four separate sections – cheap clothing, electronics, lifestyle and food – plus you can find everything from knife massages to cute collectibles like cool EasyCards.

You can eat very well here for very little including lots of international places to eat like many Indonesian food stalls known as ‘Little Jakarta”.

Connected to Station Front Metro Mall and the Taipei Station K Underground Mall, here is our ultimate guide to Taipei Underground (City) Mall.

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How to find Taipei City / Underground mall and opening hours

Directly located beneath Taipei Main Station, Taipei City Mall (also known as the Y-Mall) runs northwest and can be found by following the signs for floor signs labelled “Taipei City Mall” or head towards the Y Exits (1 to 28).

Heading down the stairs or escalators to the underground mall – several malls intersect here (including K Underground mall and Metro Mall) but Taipei City mall is the longest, running all the way to Beimen MRT station via almost 30 different Y exits.

In fact, it is so huge, there is a common recurring joke in our Taiwan Travel Tips (TTT) Facebook group about how difficult it is to get out of the mall and station!

The full address is 110024, 4F, No.1, City Hall Road, Xinyi District, Taipei.

Opening hours: Monday to Friday 11am to 9.30pm; Saturday to Sunday 11am to 10pm (although many shops close around 8pm).

There is also another popular underground mall called the K Underground Mall (K-Mall) which is located directly beneath the south side of Taipei Main Station near the K exits, and has more standard retail shops and restaurants.

Plus you’ll find lots of random stalls like second hand collectibles, health and massage stalls and much, much more!

The great thing about returning to Taipei Underground mall every few weeks is that there is always something new to see or shop at, especially in terms of geek, gaming and collectible stalls.

Gaming and Lifestyle

The electronics part of the mall is known as the ‘Akihabara of Taipei’ and is an otaku lover’s paradise with many gaming, gashapon, arcades, manga, anime and kawaii stores!

Along the walls, you’ll sometimes see large crowds gathered to play on Nintendo Switch or Pokemon Ola gaming consoles plus gaming stores like PlayStation.

Current geek, gaming and character brands in Taipei Underground mall as of summer 2026 include MUSE木棉花, Toy E Go, Carrot, Toy Park, Gachacool and One Piece / “OP本舖” – an awesome anime and cool collectibles store.

We also spotted several Taiwan souvenir shops selling items like Snoopy and Hello Kitty Taiwan merchandise, mini lanterns, magnets and more.

For a full list of all the latest shops and food stalls in Taipei City / Underground Mall, check here >

More recently, Japan’s largest second hand collectible company Hobby Off has opened a new store near in the nearby K Underground Mall (exits K1 through K12).

Food and Drink

Taipei City Mall is home to around 40 underground eateries, food stalls and bubble tea stalls, including many Malaysian and Indonesian stalls, offering up dishes like beef rendang, chicken stew and ikan teri kacang (spicy anchovies).

Located toward the Beimen MRT end of Taipei Underground mall, the Indonesian Taipei restaurants here are always so busy and smell so delicious.

One of the best known Taipei Indonesian restaurants here is RUMAH MAKAN NITA INDO AREMA 茗捷印尼餐廳 (near Y28 exit) – it is a buffet style restaurant so you can try a little of each or you can order set dishes from the main menu. Dessert and drinks include kopi and cendol.

There are also lots of Taiwanese food stalls including bubble tea shops and scallion pancakes, plus various Japanese food stalls like sushi, matcha desserts and bubble waffles.

We also spotted a Mister Donut store here too (originally from Japan but now there are loads in Taiwan).

Common items you can buy in Taipei Underground Mall / City Mall

Over 200 stores, obviously there are many items you can buy but the most common are:

• Collectible toys like anime and manga
• Gachapon capsule toy machines

• Cheap luggage, suitcases and bags (including the famous striped Taiwan gaji shopping bags)
• Clothing and unbranded fashion
• Colorful umbrellas

• Inexpensive phone accessories and second hand cell phone stalls
• International magazines including K-Pop and J-Pop
• Jewellery, gemstones and religious trinkets
• Trading cards

Highlighted shops and goods

Some of the Taipei City Mall stores that were of particular interest when we last visited in 2026:

Discount Stores at Taipei City Mall

There are several discount homeware, hardware and stationery stores below Taipei Main Station including icolor (where most items are just NT$59), or for cheap phone accessories, try the Top3C (Computers, Communications, and Consumer Electronics) discounts shop.

Cute and Collectible Easycards

A popular topic of conversation in our TTT Facebook group is where to find cool EasyCards, especially ones that may have been released in previous years.

There are several shops here with huge cabinets of collectibles, including vintage / 3D EasyCards.

From Converse to bento boxes, here you’ll find dozens of 3d EasyCard designs to choose from, as well as retro toys and anime figures

PS – alternatively, head to the fourth floor of the Wannian Building in Ximending for more cool EasyCards.

You might like our favourite 3D Taiwan EasyCards / icash cards guide >

Knife Massage /  Blind Massage

Located near Y16 exit,  台北地下街97號 is a well known knife massage stall in Taipei Underground Mall that offers 10 to 60 minute head and body massages using knives (‘daoliao’) – 600 NTD for a 40 minute knife massage as of early 2026, including Taiwanese tea.

Popular in Taiwan, whilst it may look scary and have you reaching to check your travel insurance inclusions, it is said to have rejuvenating powers and has been practised for hundreds of years.

You can also get Taiwanese blind massages towards the Beimen MRT end of the mall, with around half a dozen different blind massage centers, where funds are raised to help visually impaired masseuses.

Other things to know

• There are free toilets at various points along Taipei City Mall
• The official Taipei Underground Mall website is taipeimall.com.tw/en
• There are often pop-up activations and themed displays around key public holidays (like Lunar New Year) or new gaming releases

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