About Taiwan Train Price

Taiwan Train Price does one thing: it tells you what a train ticket in Taiwan actually costs — THSR versus TRA, per corridor, with the booking facts needed to buy the right ticket. The core is a fare finder over a fare matrix that was checked against official sources on a stated date; everything else on the site is that data sliced into corridor pages and practical guides.

The angle exists because most English-language guides still carry pre-2025 rail fares (TRA raised fares on 2025-06-23 — +26.8% on average, the first rise in roughly 30 years) and miss the early-bird tiers that quietly change which system is cheaper.

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How we handle facts

• Every price, time and rule on the site traces to a numbered claim in our fact sheet, with source URL, retrieval date and a confidence level.
• Claims we could not verify — per-corridor fastest times, one missing TRA fare — render as "To be confirmed" instead of a number. We never estimate.
• TRA per-pair fares are quoted from major Taiwanese outlets citing the official TRA fare table; where that matters, the source line says so.
• Comparisons ("cheaper by NT$X") are plain arithmetic over sourced fares, never a modelled price.

Coverage: 6 corridors (Taipei–Taoyuan, Taipei–Taichung, Taipei–Chiayi, Taipei–Tainan, Taipei–Zuoying, Banqiao–Zuoying), the 12-station high speed line (~350 km, up to 300 km/h) and the regular network on those routes.

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Independence and money

The site is run independently and is not affiliated with THSR (Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation) or TRA (Taiwan Railway Corporation). Some outbound links are affiliate links — mainly to booking platforms — and that funding never decides what the data says. Details: affiliate disclosure.

Image credits

Photographs are from Wikimedia Commons under their respective licences; files link back to their Commons pages.

• File:THSR 700T train at Taichung Station.jpg — CC BY-SA 4.0, Tbatb via Wikimedia Commons.
• File:TRA EMU3000 at Qidu Station 20220618.jpg — CC BY-SA 4.0, 鐵路1 via Wikimedia Commons.
• File:TRA Taipei Station ticket windows 20130127.jpg — Public domain, Voice of America via Wikimedia Commons.

Contact & corrections

Spotted a stale number? That's the most useful report we can get — fares here are re-checked on a schedule, but rail pricing does move.