Literature Museum to the Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung: free self-guided walking tour
Quick answer. A free self-guided walking tour from the Taichung Literature Museum to the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts: 3 stops, about 2.7 km, about 35 minutes of walking plus about 18 minutes of listening. Start at the Taichung Literature Museum, police family houses of the early 1930s turned into a literature park with poems on its walls. Walk to the National Taiwan Museum of Comics in the old Taichung Prison compound, where the drill hall of 1937 now shows comic art, and end at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, opened in 1988 and the largest public art museum in Taiwan.
- Stops:
- 3
- Distance:
- about 2.7 km
- Walking:
- about 35 min
- Listening:
- about 18 min
Two ways to do this walk
Taichung with Mappu
Walk Mode, in the free Mappu app
It knows where you are, tells you about everything you pass between the stops, answers your questions and keeps you on the route. Your phone stays in your pocket.
A 2-hour live walk, €4.99.
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Self-guided audio walk. No guide accompanies you. Not affiliated with the sites.
Free: the audio guides
Listen to each stop’s audio guide in your browser and find your own way between the stops.
Walking directions in Google MapsLiterature Museum to the Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung: how long does the walk take?
About 53 minutes in all: about 35 minutes on foot over about 2.7 km, plus about 18 minutes of audio at the 3 stops. Time inside the sites is extra.
Literature Museum to the Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung: in what order should you visit the stops?
Follow the stops in this order: Taichung Literature Museum, National Taiwan Museum of Comics, and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. The longest stretch between two stops is about 1.8 km, about 24 min on foot.
Route and map
Indicative route. While you walk, watch where you're going, mind the traffic and follow local signs and rules. The map is an aid, not a safety guide. Terms
Follow Mappu’s map: the route runs along the streets from stop to stop, and the stories keep playing as you walk.
To get to the first stop, or if you’re far from the route, Google Maps has walking directions through every stop.
Stop 1
Six police family houses from the early 1930s, rescued from 2010 as a literature park: a curved river for the start of literacy, literary paths and walls of calligraphy and poems.
about 5 min of audio
Next stop: National Taiwan Museum of Comics · about 1.0 km, about 13 min on foot
Stop 2
Taiwan’s national comics museum in the old Taichung Prison compound, opened in December 2023: a 1937 drill hall for judo and kendo now shows original pages from a collection of 15,000 items.
about 6 min of audio
Next stop: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts · about 1.8 km, about 24 min on foot
Stop 3
Taiwan’s largest public art museum, opened in 1988, closed for Cai Guo-Qiang’s explosion event in 1998 and hit by the 1999 earthquake, with Buffalo Hall and Art Street inside.
about 7 min of audio
The stop stories are AI-generated audio guides and can contain mistakes. Check opening hours and tickets on the official sites.
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Before you go
- Check opening hours, tickets and access on each site’s official page before you go.
- Distances and times are estimates: the walking route between stops, from OpenStreetMap, at 4.5 km/h. Your route on the street may differ.
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Route checked by Mappu on November 1, 2026. Stop descriptions come from each place’s published Mappu audio guide. Mappu is a Fenutech product.