Kaohsiung 6 Days Itinerary

I’ve been in Kaohsiung for a few days now. In mid-September, the city is usually unbearably hot, but today the weather suddenly turned cool with a drizzle of rain. Though it disrupted my itinerary, it did nothing to dampen Kaohsiung’s warmth and vitality. In the morning, I arrived at Qiaotou Railway Station and followed a tree-lined path that soon led me to the Qiaotou Sugar Factory, now transformed into the Taiwan Sugar Museum. Rows of well-preserved Japanese-style dormitories, the vast sugar-milling plant, and so on. #kaohsiung tell me all tell stories of the golden era of Taiwan’s sugar industry a century ago. Back then, convoys of rumbling carts loaded with sugarcane would roll in from the countryside, filling the air with the sweet fragrance of sugar—the most familiar scene in Qiaotou. Inside the Sugar Museum, visitors can see not only the old machinery and the sugar-making process but also exhibitions that reveal how the sugar industry once fueled local development. By midday, I returned to Kaohsiung Railway Station in a light drizzle and stopped by the Postal Museum nearby. Inside, time seemed to slow down. Display cases were filled with stamps tinged with the hues of history—some depicting Taiwan’s mountains and landscapes, others reflecting different eras of politics, society, and culture. Old-fashioned mailboxes, hand-cranked telephones, writing desks, and typewriters conjured images of postmen carrying mailbags through the alleys, delivering letters from door to door. It was an age before instant messaging, when every letter carried a traveler’s longing, a lover’s tender words, or a family’s heartfelt greetings. The National Science and Technology Museum in Kaohsiung radiates both modernity and warmth. Its spacious grounds feel like a playground of knowledge, weaving science seamlessly into everyday life. With a ticket priced at NT$150, I watched the 3D film T. rex: Back to the Cretaceous. Grounded in science, it vividly recreated the dinosaurs’ habitats, their evolution, and their eventual extinction. Kaohsiung City Hall, is itself a historic building.