Northern Taiwan has a wide variety of tourist attractions,
from the cultural to the modern. The National Palace Museum,
Beitou hot springs area and Fort San Domingo each show the different cultures Chinese,
Japanese, Spanish and Dutch settlers brought to the island. For a more modern touch,
Taipei 101 and the 24-hour Eslite bookstore are popular destinations.
And when you're good and hungry,
there is a large selection of night markets to try out too.
FTV's Michella Jade Weng reports.

Whale watching,
taking bridal photos on the coast,
and taking a ride down the nostalgic Pingxi line,
these are all popular outdoor itineraries when people visit Northern Taiwan.

If culture is more your thing,
the National Palace Museum houses over 650 thousand Chinese Imperial artifacts,
the Japanese architecture in the Beitou hot spring resort show remnants of Japanese occupation, and Fort San Domingo in Danshuei is another reminder of Taiwan's multi-cultural history. There is also the Longshan Temple which can give you a peek into religious practices in the region.
And back to modern-day Taiwan, you can visit Taipei 101,
still the tallest complete building in the world,
and swing by Asia's first 24-hour bookstore, Eslite.
Then when you're good and hungry,
you may want to check out the night markets for some interesting food like oyster pancakes and mini sausages.
You may find that you wish you had a bigger stomach to try all of these things
and more energy and time in the day to visit all of these places in Northern Taiwan.

Michella Jade Weng, Formosa TV, Taipei.