Find your bearings
Taipei Arena, the hotel is just five minutes by car from Taipei Songshan Airport, a couple of kilometres from Songshan Cultural Creative Park and about a 15-minute stroll down shady avenues to Fujin Street, with its designer décor stores, boutiques and cafés.
Feed your mind
Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, one of the hubs of Taipei’s design revolution, is just a ten-minute taxi-ride from the hotel. While this vast complex of galleries, design labs, creative areas, coffee shops, bookstores and exhibition rooms has emerged from the cocoon of an old Japanese cigarette factory, the old United States Taiwan Defense Command has spawned the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, which has spearheaded the city’s contemporary art scene since it opened in 1983. For a journey back in time, head to the National Palace Museum, which includes a collection of nearly 700,000 of the rarest treasures from the Chinese Empire.