Taipei 101
1,667 feet, and a 660-tonne spherical damper hanging near the top.
Duration
1 hr 30 min – 2 hrs 30 min
Difficulty
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Best time
Sunset slot
Open
Every day
Entry price
600 TWD
Taipei 101 is five hundred and eight metres tall and was the world's tallest building from 2004 to 2010. Its form draws on a bamboo stem: eight sections of eight floors, eight being the number of prosperity in Chinese.
Its distinctive feature is visible on the 88th floor: a six-hundred-and-sixty-tonne steel sphere hung on cables, the largest tuned mass damper ever installed and the only one open to public view. It counters the sway caused by typhoons and earthquakes — Taipei is in an active seismic zone, and the tower is built two hundred metres from a fault.
Getting there
Metro red line, Taipei 101 / World Trade Center station, exit 4. The observatory entrance is on the fifth floor of the mall.
What the price covers
paid observatory entry, rate to be confirmed
Rules on site
The lift reaches the 89th floor in thirty-seven seconds: your ears block — swallow or yawn. Haze and rain are frequent in Taipei and wipe out the view, with no refund.
Checked on 29 August 2026 at Taipei 101 — observatory tickets
