Yangmingshan Flower Festival – the perfect spot for flower viewing you can’t miss during the 2026 holidays!
When people talk about Yangmingshan, the flower festival is always a highlight. This year’s cherry blossoms are opening one variety after another, followed by azaleas and wisteria!
So how should you enjoy this year’s Yangmingshan Flower Festival?
In this article we’ll share a few of the best flower-viewing spots, plus a ready-made itinerary guide you can simply follow.
No more digging through endless posts for Yangmingshan Flower Festival information – here’s everything you need in one complete guide!
(Transportation, times, locations and event information will be updated continuously.)
Yangmingshan Flower Festival | Best flower-viewing spots
1. Water Curtain Cave area by Parking Lot No. 2
There are 300 double-flowered cherry trees near the Water Curtain Cave, and the park also has an area with more than 800 Taiwan cherry trees.
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2. The trail in front of the Flower Clock
The Yangmingshan Flower Clock was built in 1965, and it’s a must-see for visitors who all want a photo in front of it.
Image source: @nanakochen
Yangmingshan Flower Festival | Recommended itineraries
Yangmingshan Flower Festival itinerary 1:
Yangming Park Flower Clock → Zhuzihu → Xiaoyoukeng
Zhuzihu (Bamboo Lake) was originally a barrier lake formed by erupting volcanic lava. As the water gradually drained away it became a wetland, and more than a thousand years ago the Ketagalan people of the Pingpu tribes began farming here. Two hundred years ago, when Han settlers first came to cultivate the land, they saw muddy ground covered with bamboo groves and named the place Zhuzihu.
Image source: @kittylee1021
Xiaoyoukeng is a post-volcanic geological landscape area, best known for the fumaroles, sulfur crystals, hot springs and dramatic collapsed terrain created by post-volcanic activity.
Image source: @elena_0921, @__lmr58__, @fengggwei
Yangmingshan Flower Festival itinerary 2:
Yangming Shuwu → Yangming Park Flower Clock → Caoshan Villa → Qianshan Park
Yangming Shuwu is an important environmental education site. Formerly known as the Zhongxing Guest House, it was once a key decision-making venue that shaped Taiwan’s modern development – you’re very welcome to visit.
Image source: @parkstaiwan
Caoshan Villa was originally a guest house of the Taiwan Sugar Corporation; when the Nationalist government moved to Taiwan in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek stayed here. The villa is quiet and pleasant, sitting on a strategic high point of Caoshan where the Keelung River and the Tamsui River meet right before your eyes, with sweeping views of the Guandu Plain, Shezi Island and Guanyin Mountain.
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Yangmingshan’s Qianshan Park, also known as Zhongzheng Park, has simple, elegant landscaping along with flower gardens, a swimming pool and public bathhouses. Whether you want to soak in a hot spring, enjoy some tea or just stroll along the trails, it’s a great choice!
Image source: @angel_huang_t_y
Yangmingshan Flower Festival itinerary 3:
Qingtiangang → Lengshuikeng Trail → Milk Lake → Menghuan Pond
The Qingtiangang Grassland lies on the eastern slope of Qixing Mountain and is a lava terrace formed when lava from Zhugao Mountain in the Datun volcano group flowed northward. Every November, Yangmingshan is blanketed in silvery-white silvergrass that looks just like snow.
Image source: @alanwang225
Lengshuikeng sits on the eastern slope of Qixing Mountain. After Qixing Mountain and Qigu Mountain erupted, the flowing lava dammed the area and formed a volcanic lake; later the lake rim eroded, the water drained away and the exposed lake bed created the landscape you see today.
Image source: @maureenwu_tw
Milk Lake, next to the Lengshuikeng parking lot, is Taiwan’s only precipitated sulfur deposit. Its slightly milky-white water looks just like milk, and it’s the last remnant of a crater lake.
Menghuan Pond is an ecological protection area thanks to the rare Taiwan quillwort growing in it, and it’s rich in natural life. Rain is scarce here in autumn and winter, but after the rainy season or a heavy downpour the pond brims with water; when mountain mist rolls in, the water, mountain shadows and drifting clouds create a truly dreamlike scene.
Image source: @stanley.1020, @flytsai
Yangmingshan Flower Festival | Transportation information (updated regularly)
Yangmingshan Flower Festival parking information
| Parking lot | Fee | Notes |
| Yangmingshan Multi-Story Parking Lot | Cars: $30–60 / h | 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.: NT$60 per hour
7 p.m. to 7 a.m.: NT$30 per hour |
| Scooters: $20 per entry | ||
| Parking Lot No. 2 | Large tour buses: $200 / h | 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.: free for the first 30 minutes
7 p.m. to 7 a.m.: closed entirely |
| Scooters: $20 per entry | ||
| Parking Lot No. 2
(car parking area under the trees) | Cars: $60 / h | Reserved for bus dispatch on weekends and holidays
Open to cars on weekdays |
Drive and transfer
To encourage visitors to take public transportation up the mountain, the underground parking lots at Bailing High School and Fulin Park offer 3 hours of free parking per entry per day for drivers who transfer to a bus (at Fulin Park Underground Parking Lot, scooter riders who transfer park free for that entry that day).
You can also park your car at:
Bailing High School Underground Parking Lot, then transfer to the Red 5 or 303 bus
Fulin Park Underground Parking Lot, then transfer to the Red 5 or 260 bus
Taipei Veterans General Hospital Multi-Story Parking Lot, then take the 128 or Mini 8 bus
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This article was translated by AI from the original Chinese version.
