Hongshulin

good!

They've got the best view here!

Good

this station has facilities for bikers and bikers should go out at this station!

It's ok!

Good place.

Clean, easy to use public transportation. In expensive. The country should be proud of itself. Station on street level.

紅樹林（HongShuLin, literally means colony of red shrubs in Chinese, while there’s a special name for the shrub-水筆仔（ShiuBiZai）, denoting the ready-to-go seedling which is in the form like a pen）got its name for the red mangroves that cover the sothern bank of Tamsui River （淡水河）near river’s estuary, the river empties its flow to the northern tip of Taiwan Strait （台灣海峽）. The mangroves cover an area that stretches from Hongshulin metro station （紅樹林站）to Tamsui metro station（淡水站）, there are also other small patches of mangroves along the river, but not as splendorous as this one, it is now a natural reserve, and serves as a sanctuary for birds, too, a lot of birdwatchers come here to watch them in the migrating seasons, there are long, elevated wooden path for pedestrians and bicycles to troll, a good place to spend the morning, or the afternoon till evening in fine weather. On the 9th of March, a friend of mine sent message in the morning, to invite me to be with her in Tamsui for lunch, I agreed, and took the MRT from my home (transiting at Zhongshan metro station) , it took me about one hour for the trip to Tamsui metro station, upon arrival, I received a call from her, I said I was about to arrive at Tamsui station, she said no,no,no, she should meet me at Zhongyi metro station（忠義站）, and took me by her car to visit her new home somewhere around there, then drove to Tamsui. Apparently I missed something in her message. I had to get back to Zhongyi station which is 4 stations away. That happened sometimes regarding my mis-reading or mis-interpreting the information from others. I was lucky that day, the delay was only about 20 minutes. I should be more careful next time. We then had a hearty meal at Fullon Hotel Tamsui Fishermen's Wharf （福容大飯店- 淡水漁人碼頭）, and I took Danhai light rail (淡海輕軌）by myself to Hongshulin station, then to reconnect my original route back home. As Hongshulin station is the converging point for Danhai light rail and Tamsui–Xinyi line（淡水信義線, the Read Line）, and because of the red Mangroves sanctuary, the wooden path, and Guandu Bridge (關渡大橋）near by, this area may become more populated, and more commercialized in future. 來這兒試乘捷運綠山線，淡水輕軌。人好多。