Taipei Fun Pass: Unlimited Fun with Taipei’s Best Travel Pass

If you’re planning to explore Taipei’s top sights without the hassle of lining up for tickets at each one, the Taipei Fun Pass (Taipei FunPASS or Taipei Unlimited Fun Pass) might just be your best travel companion.

This all-in-one pass bundles 30+ attractions, unlimited public transportation, special discounts, local experiences, and even a small gift, available in 1-, 2-, or 3-day versions. This pass is all about convenience, which is a classic Taiwan trait!

But before you grab one, there’s quite a bit to know: how to use it, where it works, and – most importantly – whether it’s really worth it. (Spoiler: I’ve calculated that the average user saves TWD 3000 with the 3-day pass!)

I’ll cover it all below, based on several years of following this pass, recommending it to travelers in my Taiwan Travel Planning group, and receiving their feedback about it.

Also read my guide to the newer Taiwan Pass, a nation-wide version of this pass, and the Taiwan HSR Pass.

Taipei (Unlimited) Fun Pass Key Info

• Issued by the Taipei City Government and aimed at providing convenience and savings to independent travelers.
• Available here on Klook or here on KKday, with pickup on arrival in Taiwan.
• See the official site, usage instructions, and download the app (iPhone/Android)
•  Works for 1, 2, or 3 consecutive calendar days (NOT 24-hour periods). Pass activates the first time you use it for anything.
• Includes 30+ attractions (most valuable: Taipei 101 Observatory) and most but not all public transportation in Taipei, New Taipei City, and Keelung. The Taoyuan Airport MRT (run by Taoyuan City) is not included.
• There’s a new option for Child Pass, which is for ages 6-11. Teens should get the adult pass, while under-six are free or get highly reduced rates for most things in Taipei.
• Use this Taipei Fun Pass Calculator to calculate how much it will save you.

Heading to Kaohsiung after Taipei? There’s now a Kaohsiung Fun Pass, too!

Comparison to Other Passes

Here’s how the Taipei Fun Pass stacks up to other common travel passes for the city.

Pass	Attractions	Public Transportation	Local Experiences	Discounts	Gift	Days
Taipei Unlimited Fun Pass	30+	Unlimited MRT, local buses, Pingxi Line	✓	✓	✓	1-3
Taipei Exploring Fun Pass	30+	X	X	✓	✓	2-4
Taipei Transport Fun Pass	X	Unlimited MRT, local buses	X	X	X	1-2
Taiwan Pass (see HSR and TRA versions)	Option to add 1 only.	One MRT pass, one HSR or TRA pass, one Taiwan Tourism shuttle	X	X	X	Use within 7 days, but each item is shorter

As you can see in the above table, the Taipei Unlimited Fun Pass is the most complete one, with attractions, transportation, local experiences, discounts, and gift.

The Taipei Exploring Fun Pass doesn’t include transportation or local experiences, while the Taipei Transport Fun Pass doesn’t include the Pingxi Line, attractions, discounts, or gift.

The Taiwan Pass is totally different. It’s focused on all of Taiwan, not just Taipei. It bundles different transportation types across the country, with no overlap with the Taipei Fun Pass (as long as you choose non-Taipei options on it). In other words, consider both passes separately, and you may want to get both.

Taipei Fun Pass vs. EasyCard

You are probably wondering whether you should get a Taipei Fun Pass or an EasyCard (see my guide / order on Klook or KKday), Taiwan’s most common transportation card. And if you get the Taipei Fun Pass, should you also get an EasyCard?

Think of it like this: the Taipei Fun Pass is an all-in-one pass mainly for tourists and only in Taipei City region. It saves money for short-term visitors who want to do many things in Taipei in a short period of time.

EasyCard is not a tourist pass but a reloadable smart card used by locals and visitors alike. It costs TWD 100 (non-refundable deposit) for the card plus any funds you want to load onto it.

The EasyCard is used for public transportation across Taiwan (MRTs, city buses, Taiwan Tourism shuttle buses (for example to to Sun Moon Lake and to Alishan), local trains, ferries, YouBikes, but NOT for intercity coaches, express trains, or HSRs). It also works at convenience stores, some taxis, and some food stalls.

If you don’t plan to visit many attractions on the Taipei Fun Pass list, just get an EasyCard instead. Load some cash onto it, and then pay for things as you go.

However, if you choose the Taipei Fun Pass for the convenience (no worrying about your balance) and savings it offers on your 1-3 days in Taipei, you may still also get an EasyCard if:

• You plan to stay in Taipei longer than 1-3 days.
• You plan to ride the MRT or local buses in other cities, such as Taoyuan (the Airport MRT), Taichung and Kaohsiung.
• You plan to take Taiwan Tourism shuttle buses to Sun Moon Lake, Alishan, or other popular destinations across Taiwan.
• You’d like to use it to pay for taxis, ferries, convenience store items, or anything else while traveling in Taiwan.

Note that you can order an EasyCard loaded with up to TWD 400, but after it runs out, you’ll only be able to top it up with cash in Taiwan.

What’s Included on the Taipei Fun Pass

The Taipei Unlimited Fun Pass includes a long list of attractions, transportation, discounts, local experiences, and a free gift.

Attractions

You can swipe your Taipei Fun Pass for admission to 30+ attractions in Taipei region. You can see the full list of attractions by scrolling down on the Klook page – I counted 34 attractions in total at the time of writing.

To be fair, you probably won’t go to many of these places. Some I’ve never even heard of. But what really matters is which ones you WILL go to, and how much they are worth.

Here I’ve listed the top-10 attractions you may actually visit, in order of value, and their regular admission price.

For calculating the Taipei FunPass total value, I’ve assumed you would go to these 10 attractions in three days. But serious pass users could easily add more, which would give even higher value to the pass.  

Top 10 Pass Attractions	Normal Price (in TWD)
Taipei 101 Observatory	600
National Palace Museum	350
Maokong Gondola Day Pass	300
Miniatures Museum	250
Miramar Ferris Wheel	200
Children’s Amusement Park	150
Yehliu Geopark	120
Heping Island Geopark	120
Jinguashi Gold Museum	80
Taipei Zoo	100
Total Value	2270

See additional information about how to swipe your card at each of these attractions.

Transportation

The Taipei Taipei Fun Pass can also be swiped to ride the Taipei MRT, local buses in Taipei city, intercity buses to New Taipei and Keelung (only buses with 1-3 digits), and five Taiwan Tourism shuttle buses that you may also use on your day trips.

You can take unlimited rides on all of these.

Note that trains, HSRs, long distance buses (with 4 digits), and Taoyuan Airport MRT are NOT included on the Taipei Fun Pass.

Here’s a table with more details and approximate value.

Transportation	Average Cost Per Ride	Notes
Taipei MRT	30	Ranges from 20-60 per ride
Local Buses	50	Local city buses start from 15, longer distance like Ximen to Jiufen is 90
Pingxi Line Day Pass	80 (for full-day pass)	Stops including Shen’ao, Ruifang, Houtong, Shifen, and more.
Five Taiwan Tourism Shuttles	50	1. Beitou to Yangmingshan, 2. Ruifang to Jiufen & Jinguashi 3. Tamsui to North Coast Beaches 4. Muzha MRT to Shenkeng and Shifen 5. Keelung to Heping Island Geopark and Shen’ao Rail Bike

Actual usage will vary a lot here. On a busy day in Taipei, you might ride the MRT 6 to 8 times but not ride anything else. Short MRT rides are only 20 but longer ones are worth up to 60.

Local buses in Taipei city are as low as 15 per ride. An example you might take is Shilin MRT to National Palace Museum. Longer buses you might take include Taipei to Yangmingshan (30) or Ximen to Jiufen (90).

On your day trips, you’ll use more buses and possibly the Pingxi Line, but you will have fewer or no MRT rides.

For the MRT and buses, you just swipe your Taipei Fun Pass like you would an EasyCard when boarding and getting off the bus (or when entering and exiting the station).

For the Pingxi Line, there’s a special ticket machine where you scan the card and it will give you a physical day pass slip (see second photo below).

All things considered, I’ve calculated that the average traveler uses TWD 750 worth of rides on these four items in a typical, busy, three days in Taipei (including one day trip).

This figure could easily be less for slower travelers, but those who pack in a lot, it could easily be more.

Local Experiences

Included in the Taipei Fun Pass is five local experiences or snack souvenirs.

They don’t list an exact value for each of these experiences, but on average I estimate them to be worth around TWD 200 each. One is in central Taipei, one is in Maokong, and three are on your Jiufen & Shifen day trip.

You can do all five with any Unlimited Fun Pass, but due to their spread out locations, you’d need the two- or three-day pass to do all five.

Remember that if you haven’t activated your card yet, doing one of these will count as an activation.

Experience	Notes
Maokong Tieguanyin Tea Bag DIY	Write a card for someone and enclose a bag of tea in Maokong (at the top of Maokong Gondola)
Master A-Tsung Pineapple or Taro Cake	Get a pineapple or taro cakes shaped like Taiwan, shop is in Taipei Main Station or Songshan Airport
Pingxi Sky Lantern Experience	Set off a sky lantern in Shifen Old Street on the Pingxi Line
Jiufen A-Po’s Taro Balls	Taste the most famous snack on Jiufen Old Street, taro balls (hot or iced) at Grandma Lai’s
Jiufen Red Lantern Experience	Get a lucky red lantern and blessing card on Jiufen Old Street

See here for more information about the exact location of each experience.

Discounts

The Taipei Fun Pass also comes with a long list of discounts in four shopping districts in Taipei: Dadaocheng (Dihua Street), Yongkang Street, Maokong, and Ximending.

In total, I counted 85 shops, restaurants, bars, massage parlors, and even claw machine shops offering discounts to pass-holders. Here’s the full list.

Just show your pass to get the discount – when the Fun Pass website says “gift bag”, it doesn’t mean there’s an actual physical bag – this just refers to their “bundle” of digital discounts.

As you can see, the sky is the limit for how much you can save here. For my calculations, I’ve assumed you’ve save a modest TWD 200 per day by taking advantage of these discounts.

Free Gift

Every Taipei Unlimited Fun Pass holder is entitled to one free gift, which is a pair of cute Taiwanese beer glasses.

These are the kind of glasses most Taiwanese use for drinking beer at family gatherings or local quick fry restaurants. I have many fond memories using them! These glasses are valued at TWD 350.  

One glass has a dragon and says “好吃 Ho Jia”, which is Mandarin and Hokkien (Taiwanese language) for “delicious”.

The other has a chonky tiger and says “乾啦 Hodala”, which is the Mandarin and Hokkien for “cheers”.

You can pick these up at the Visitor and Tourist Information Center here in Ximending. Heads up that picking retrieving the gift will count as card activation.

If you get the Kaohsiung Fun Pass, it comes with similar Kaohsiung beer glasses, which show the Dragon and Tiger Pagodas.

Is the Taipei Fun Pass Worth the Money?

Let’s look at just how much money you can save with this pass.

The figures in my table are just estimates of how much a normal traveler might expect to use the pass. You could easily use the pass more or less than I’ve indicated.

I assumed you’ll try to hit a few of the most valuable attractions on Day 1, which is why that day’s attractions value is higher.

For the local experiences, I assumed you’d only do one in one day (central Taipei), two in two days (central Taipei + Makong), but you’d do all five in three days (central Taipei, Makong, and Jiufen/Shifen).

	One-Day Pass	Two-Day Pass	Three-Day Pass
Attractions	1100	1700	2300
Transportation	250	500	750
Local Experience	200	400	1000
Discounts	200	400	600
Free gift	350	350	350
Total Value	2100	3350	5000
Pass Price*	1300	1700	2000
Amount Saved	800	1650	3000

*with Klook or KKday discount

Find more money saving tips in my Taiwan budget travel guide.

Tips for Maximizing Your Fun Pass

To actually save the above amounts, use your Taipei Fun Pass wisely. Here are some tips to maximize your savings.

• The pass works by consecutive calendar days, so make sure to activate it early on Day 1 so you can get a full day’s use out of it. Only activate it when you are ready to start the clock on your 1-3 days.  
• Maybe don’t activate it on your arrival day in Taiwan, especially if you arrive later in the day. Remember it doesn’t work for the Airport MRT, either. Activate it on your first big sightseeing day.
• If possible, try to save non-included activities for later, after your 1-3 pass days.
• If you don’t plan to do that many activities on the list, just go for the 1-day or 2-day pass, not the full 3-days.
• Try to use included transportation methods. For example, take the direct bus 965 from Ximending to Jiufen (included), NOT bus 1062 from Zhongxiao Fuxing to Jiufen (not included because it has 4 digits).
• Are you planning to do a day tour to Jiufen and Shifen (like this one)? The Fun Pass will still cover some items not included in the tour price (like sky lantern experience and Yehliu entrance), but it won’t be saving you any money on transportation that day, so it most likely won’t be worth it for that day.

Overall, my final advice is: don’t let this pass dictate everything you do (and don’t do) on your Taipei trip.

This is one of the dangers of travel passes. Once you pay for it, you may become obsessed with trying to get the most possible use from it.

In my opinion, doing exactly what you want to do in Taipei should be the top priority. Getting a little more use out of a pass that you’ve already paid for shouldn’t be.

But I do know some people who absolutely love taking advantage of deals, so if that’s you, then go ahead and enjoy your savings to the maximum!

I’d love to hear from those who used this pass. How many attractions did you manage to visit with the pass? Do you think it was worth the money? Let me know in the comments below!

Disclosure: I collaborated with the Taipei City Government on this article and they provide some of the photos.