One of Taipei’s best cultural hubs, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park in Xinyi is a chock full of cool coffee shops, craft shops and pop-up exhibitions as well as the permanent home of the Taiwan Design Museum.
A former Taipei tobacco factory transformed into one of the capital’s most liveliest lifestyle centers and cool shopping centers, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park is free to visit and a short walk from Taipei Dome, National Dr Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall and Taipei 101.
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If you’ve already been to Huashan 1914 Creative Park or Rongjin Gorgeous Time near Yongkang Street, you’ll know what to expect!
From shops to pop-ups, the Design Museum to the epic Eslite Spectrum Songyan store, here is our guide to Songshan Cultural and Creative Park in Taipei.
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How to get to Songshan Cultural and Creative Park
Found in Taipei’s Xinyi District, the nearest station to Songshan Cultural and Creative Park is the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall MRT Station (on the blue Bannan Line) – it is around a 8 minute / 600 meter walk from the station to the park.
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Songshan Cultural and Creative Park opening hours
The outdoor space and park at Songshan Cultural and Creative Park is open 24 hours a day – most of the indoor shops and businesses are open from 9am to 6pm 7 days a week.
Songshan Cultural and Creative Park is free to visit and no tickets are required (apart from the special exhibitions and pop-up displays).
The nearby Eslite Spectrum is open from 11am to 10pm daily.
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History of Songshan Cultural and Creative Park
Now a super-cool Taipei creative hub, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park began live over 80 years ago as a tobacco factory. Opened in 1937, it continued to make tobacco until 1998.
Three years later in 2001, the site was listed as one of Taiwan’s special historic sites (the 99th) after several years of building work, opened as the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park.
To learn more about the site, find out about free 30 minute guided tours of the park led by volunteers here >
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Exploring Songshan Cultural and Creative Park
We’ve been to the cultural park several times over the last decade and what is nice is that there is something new to see or do everytime we go.
From new exhibitions at the permanent Taiwan Design Museum to pop-ups that last just a few months, there is plenty to see – plus there are lots of nice coffee shops and artisan gift shops inside.
Songshan Cultural and Creative Park consists of five former warehouses and various old plant rooms left over from its time as a tobacco factory.
Like Huashan 1914 Creative Park, this is one of the best cultural parks in Taipei, if not Taiwan.
Some of the best things to see include:
Gift shops galore
Taipei’s shopping centers are great but Songshan Cultural and Creative Park feels unique, as you wander the old halls of the tobacco factory browsing cute craft stores and gorgeous gift shops.
With an emphasis on locally sourced goods, some of the best gift shops here include Design Pin, Unsimple Leather Goods and the rather divine HMS Beagle gift shop. Brand pop-ups and activations are also a regular occurrence.
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Taiwan Design Museum
Showcasing traditional and modern Taiwanese Design, this is a permanent museum that hosts lots of temporary exhibits, often by local artists and students.
Entry costs just NT$50 (around £1.20 / $150 USD) and includes entry to the Not Just Library (more on this below).
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Not Just Library
Taipei knows how to do interesting libraries and Songshan Cultural and Creative Park has its own Not Just Library.
This beautifully designed reading space and archives is home to 20,000 books and dozens of magazines you can read in bean-bags and interesting spaces for a small entrance fee.
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Design Pin
Is this the most beautiful souvenir shop in Taipei? Full of locally designed products of all shapes and sizes, this is retail heaven.
Almost like a showroom of the most sublime shopping products and best tasting local products and teas, even if you have no room in your bag for souvenirs, be sure to visit the Design Pin concept store at Songshan Cultural and Creative Park.
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Cama Coffee Roasters
A quick mention of this super-cool coffee shop that has branches all over Taipei and is like a Starbucks Reserve but with better beans!
This Cama Coffee Roasters is particularly unique as it is housed in an old warehouse, which gives it a certain charm and industrial chic – prices are a little on the high side though.
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Baroque Garden and Park
There are several outdoor spaces at Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, which may prove a respite after all that shopping.
The European style Baroque Garden has a fountain and several scantily clad statues, and used to act as a recreation space for the tobacco factory works.
There is also a huge eco pond (near Cama Coffee Roasters) which is a popular place to watch the ducks on the lake, fish swim or just wander around the wooden bridges and boardwalks – it is a popular spot for locals to eat their lunch boxes too.
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Eslite Spectrum Songyan
Located next door to Songshan Creative Park, the Eslite Spectrum Songyan has one of the best bookshops in Taipei, located on the upper floors and looking out over the park.
There are several floors of retail therapy including an upmarket food court in the basement levels – there are also lots of craft and artisan stalls including a pottery and glass blowing shop where you can make your own ornaments.
In the summer months, there is a small outdoor terrace plus the Eslite Spectrum bookshop on the top floor has a nice cafe hidden amongst the books.
If you are a vinyl LP collector on the hunt in Taipei, this is one of the most fantastic plastic spots!
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Other things to do near Songshan Cultural and Creative Park
Bugcat Capoo 7-Eleven
The Bugcat Capoo themed 7-Eleven in Taipei (map) is definitely one of the more fun convenience stores in Taiwan to visit, and an excellent activity in Xinyi with children (or big kids like us).
7-Eleven Taiwan has over 100 themed stores across the country, including cartoon character branded stores such as Snoopy / Peanuts, Hello Kitty, Ultraman, Pokemon and Mofusand.
Bugcat Capoo 7-Eleven is a 5 minute / 400 meter walk from the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park – read our guide to visiting here >
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National Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall – temporarily closed in 2024
2024 update – National Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall closed its doors in February and will reopen in 2026.
The restoration will cost NT$1.6 billion and will renovate all the inner halls as well as create a brand new reflective pool outdoors.
Opened in 1972, The National Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall is dedicated to the former president of the Republic of China, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, whose large statue can be found in the main hall.
Other facilities include a large library plus permanent galleries and exhibitions.
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Taipei Hooters Xinyi Bar
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With an incredible rooftop bar terrace offering incredible views of Taipei 101 (plus a very ‘Happy Hour’), Hooters is one of the best bars in Xinyi for a fun night and cheap drinks.
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Taipei 101
Easily seen from Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taiwan’s most iconic building is 508 meters high and has…you guessed it… 101 floors.
Looking out across Taipei, the observation deck runs between floors 88 and 91, whilst there are two floors of high-up restaurants on floors 85 and 86.
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Address
Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, No.133, Guangfu South Road, Xinyi District, Taipei City 11072, Taiwan.
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