
Day trip · 12 hours
From Taipei: Sun Moon Lake, Temples and Tea Factory Day Trip
Discover the beauty of Sun Moon Lake on a day trip from Taipei. Visit the Sun Moon Old Tea Factory, Wenwu Temple, Xuanzang Temple, and Xiangshan Visitor Center.
Afterhours Cafe is a cafe in Songshan, Taipei.
Editorially verified June 2, 2026 by Elliot Marsh, TableJourney editor. Source.

Day trip · 12 hours
Discover the beauty of Sun Moon Lake on a day trip from Taipei. Visit the Sun Moon Old Tea Factory, Wenwu Temple, Xuanzang Temple, and Xiangshan Visitor Center.

Private tour · 10 hours
The Thousand Island Lake and its verdant islets on a guided tour from Taipei. Visit the Crocodile Island Viewing Platform, enjoy lunch at the Bagua Tea Plantation, and...

Private tour · 3 hours
Enjoy a Taiwanese tea experience near Taipei with a tea field tour, farmer visit, tasting, and tea jelly workshop. Meet growers, discover teas, make your own dessert, ...
Address: No. 5, Lane 269, Dunhua North Road, Songshan District, Taipei City 105
Kafeholic in Songshan is a quiet specialty filter-coffee cafe near Sun Yat-Sen MRT in Taipei, single-origin pour-overs and a small pastry bar.
OrderHand-drip filter and a piece of the lemon tart.
DrinkSpecialty filter coffee
TipOpen 12:00-20:00, closed Tuesdays. Walk-in counter; small bench.
Oasis in Da'an in Taipei is a Nordic-leaning specialty roaster cafe, founded 2018 by Yu-ta Chu, clarity-and-balance filter, light-roast single origins.
OrderFilter flight of two single origins, V60 and Kalita side by side.
DrinkSingle-origin filter on the V60
TipOpen daily 09:00-19:00. Small room; bring a laptop for the counter side only.
Kafeholic in Songshan is a quiet specialty filter-coffee cafe near Sun Yat-Sen MRT in Taipei, single-origin pour-overs and a small pastry bar.
OrderHand-drip filter and a piece of the lemon tart.
DrinkSpecialty filter coffee
TipOpen 12:00-20:00, closed Tuesdays. Walk-in counter; small bench.
Fika Fika opened 2013 after founder James Chen won the Nordic Roaster Competition, the first non-Nordic champion. Yitong Street set the third-wave template.
DrinkNordic-roast espresso
TipOpen 10:00-21:30 daily. Bring a laptop only weekday afternoons; weekends are turnover-only.
Simple Kaffa's flagship near Huashan Creative Park is the home cafe of 2016 World Barista Champion Berg Wu, ranked the world's best coffee by Big 7 Travel.
OrderThe signature espresso flight and the matcha Swiss roll dessert.
DrinkBerg Wu's signature espresso
TipOpen 10:00-17:00 daily. Queues form before 10:00 on weekends.
Simple Kaffa Sola at Taipei 101's 88th floor is the highest cafe in Taipei, opened January 2023 by Berg Wu. Filter flights, panoramic city view.
OrderFilter flight of Berg Wu's seasonal beans with the citrus cheesecake.
DrinkFilter coffee with skyline view
TipOpen 10:00-20:00 daily. Reservation by mobile app, walk-ins on standby.
Smoothie House on Yongkang Street in Taipei runs the canonical mango snowflake ice, xue hua bing with chunks of mango, mango ice cream and condensed milk.
OrderMango snowflake ice with mango ice cream and condensed milk.
DrinkMango snowflake ice
TipOpen 10:30-22:00 daily. Walk-in counter; mango is best May to October.