How This Site Covers Taipei's Cable Car
One cable car line, run by Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation, climbs 4.03 km from Taipei Zoo up to Maokong through four passenger stations, its route bent roughly into the shape of the numeral 7. That line is the whole subject of this site. The site covers one gondola ticket with five real options, starting from about $9.49, and every fare, opening hour and closure date printed here comes from the operator's own published pages rather than from secondhand guides.
Who These Pages Are For
To be plain about it: this site does not run the cable car. Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation operates the line, sells the fare at the gate and sets the schedule. The online ticket sits on the listing this site links to, and nobody here can hold a place, change a date or act on an order. What these pages can do is put the verified facts in one place before the ride is booked or the gate is reached.
The real decision usually arrives in a familiar shape. A single ride at NT$180 sits against the NT$300 one-day pass, the trip can be broken at Zhinan Temple or ridden straight to Maokong, and five ticket options carry differences that a listing page makes look interchangeable when they are not. These pages pull those differences into view: what each option actually covers, where the pass pays for itself, and where the cheaper choice is the better one.
The cable car is not the only way up the hill, and this site does not pretend otherwise. Service can stop for high wind, lightning, a strong earthquake or a typhoon warning, and the line closes every Lunar New Year's Eve. On those days buses and the Taipei Metro still reach the zoo at the bottom and the tea houses near the top, so those alternatives are printed here rather than hidden.
The independence position here is simple. No byline, no invented persona, no account of a ride nobody here took. Nobody paid for coverage or for a better position on the page. Every figure printed can be matched against the operator's published pages or the live listing in a couple of clicks, and anything that cannot be matched is not printed at all.
Where Every Figure Comes From
The fares, hours, closure dates and route figures here come from the operator's own English and Chinese pages at english.gondola.taipei and www.gondola.taipei, and the ticket figures come from the listing itself. Where the operator publishes nothing, these pages say so instead of estimating.
| What This Site Covers | This site covers the Maokong Gondola end to end: the four passenger stations from Taipei Zoo up to Maokong, the roughly 20 to 30 minute ride time, fares, hours, and what to do at the top. Every figure traces back to the operator or the tour listing itself. |
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| Fares At The Gate | The fare structure is flat and recent. A single ride costs NT$180 and the one-day pass NT$300, a scale in place since 3 March 2025, when it replaced the old distance pricing of NT$70 for one station, NT$100 for two and NT$120 for three. Stored-value cards charge the same fare, and the NT$50 crystal cabin upgrade is paid on site, per person per trip. |
| Ticket Prices And Ratings | The live ticket listing publishes a starting price of about $9.49 per person, with options running up to about $17.40, alongside a rating of 4.7 built from roughly 11,700 reviews. Those figures are printed here as approximations, because prices in local currency shift with the exchange rate. Nothing is frozen as an exact permanent value. |
| Hours And Closure Days | Hours are weekdays 09:00 to 21:00 and weekends and public holidays 09:00 to 22:00, with the line shut every Lunar New Year's Eve and on most Mondays for maintenance, exact dates published month by month. One wrinkle: the operator's English page and its dated Chinese calendar disagree about which Mondays close. This site follows the dated calendar, because it is the one carrying real dates rather than a general rule. |
| Weather And Suspensions | The weather thresholds are published, so they get stated plainly. Running stops for gusts of 16 m/s held for more than 3 seconds or any gust above 18 m/s, for lightning anywhere on the route with running restarting after 30 clear minutes, for an earthquake of intensity 4 or above, and for a typhoon land warning covering Taipei. When the line stops, free shuttle buses take passengers down from the upper stations. |
| What Stays Unpublished | Fares, hours and closure days come from the official Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation source. When the operator publishes nothing, this site prints nothing rather than estimating. Where a figure is missing, the gap stays blank. |
Three Commitments, Kept Every Time
How This Site Pays For Itself
Nothing is sold on this site: no ticket, no payment, no reservation. The fare is bought in person at the Taipei Zoo Station gate, and the online ticket is purchased on the listing, which is where the order and the voucher live.
Running the site costs money, and the outbound ticket links cover it. Book through one and the platform selling the ticket shares part of its own fee, while the price paid does not move by a cent. The full mechanics, including what that does and does not buy, are set out on the disclosure page.
The links are optional. The same gondola ticket can be bought at the station gate or on the live booking page reached any other way, at the same published price. Nothing on this site gates the ticket behind a click.