Presidential Office Building

Highly recommended tourist destination. It's a guided tour with lots of interesting exhibits and information, offered in English, Chinese, and Japanese. The history of the building was incredibly interesting, and our tour guide was very good about answering questions.

It is a real special experience I would say. The building is spectular and well maintained especially the red bricks. Highly recommend to tourists to pay a half day trip.

Make sure you take time to see the Double 10 show, which runs every half hour from 1900-2200 through 10/10. Such an inspiring light show that brought tears to our eyes and made us proud to call Taiwan our temporary home! Pre show broadcast was in Chinese and English, ample seating available. Show lasted 11 minutes.

An impressive building from the Japanese colonial period. Usually, you can enter weekday mornings, however it's also possible to enter during a few select weekends when more of the building is accessible and you can take pictures. Most of what you can look round is a museum, but there's not that much in the way of English explanation.

Incredible building with lots of informative exhibits about democracy and social movements in Taiwan. It was really fast to go through security when we were there. We went on one of the full day open house days so there also was a live jazz performance inside.

Went on a walking exploration tour of this area and really enjoyed the willow trees and beautifully managed hedges :)

This is a place has a period of history that Taiwanese people get freedom and resistance. We need leader leads us to be the one who is free to do anything we want. So this place has a significant symbol we should visit to revive us memory bringing us to the back time of Japanese occupation. And we should always remember that what we strive to get this phase now so peaceful and how our ancestors engage in political activity to use an antiwar method to show their thoughts. At the end I suggest you to come here to see how the Taiwanese people vote the president and to feel the atmosphere of how we can get the free living style at now.

Like White House in the United States, this is the place where Taiwan's president works. Under democratic constitution, Taiwan's president is elected by people. So it is fair enough that the building is open to the public without any entrance fee. The building is facing West-East bound Renai Road. The Presidential Offical Building is on the West end, while Taipei City Hal is on the other end. Many locals interestingly calls this road as "The road from city mayor to president". This road also gains international awareness for sports lovers and runners because of Taipei Marathon event. From Presidential Office Building, 228 Peace Memorial Park, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taipei Main Station, Ximending Shopping area are all within 15-minutes walking distance. By visiting this Taiwan's highest authority, you will get more clarify about the complexity of Taiwan's political and diplomatic situation, and understand what value this island is fighting for.