Kaohsiung Music CenterPhoto: Hanyu Hsieh / CC BY-SA 4.0
The Kaohsiung Music Center stands where Love River meets the harbour.
- Getting there
- On foot about 25 min, our estimate; or light rail to Love Pier
Checked · Researched, not yet visited · times from official timetables and our estimates · Takumi Yamada
The hexagon towers on Love River Bay, 1.6 km from the cruise terminal: the Wave Towers, the Coral Zone and the Whale Bridge with a lookout over the harbour. The terraces are free; building hours are not confirmed. Lit after dark.
- Short enough to be certain of: 1 hr door to door.
- Reachable on foot from the berth, so no timetable can strand you.
- It is a view, so it is weather. Check the morning sky before you commit the hours.
Kaohsiung Music Center and your ship
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Where the 1 hr goes
The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside. The minutes are our estimates from timetables and maps, not timed on the ground.
If your ship is late, cut the 20 min in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.
Routes that already include it
Finished days timed from official timetables and our estimates, with this stop in them.
What to put beside it
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
2 hr 30 min for bothThe Dome of Light
A glass dome by the Italian artist Narcissus Quagliata over the concourse of Formosa Boulevard station, where the Red and Orange lines cross.
See the detail
3 hr for bothPier-2 Art Center
Harbour warehouses on the third basin turned into an art district, with the old harbour railway as a cycle trail.
See the detail