Kaohsiung Taiwan China
Taiwan

77 Cruises availables At departure or passage at this port

Explora Journeys (4 Cruises)

Holland America Line (2 Cruises)

Norwegian Cruise Line (3 Cruises)

Oceania Cruises (22 Cruises)

Ponant (10 Cruises)

Princess Cruises (14 Cruises)

Regent Seven Seas Cruises (13 Cruises)

Seabourn Cruise Line (4 Cruises)

Silversea Cruises (5 Cruises)


Frequently Asked Questions

At the international cruise terminal, right in the Yancheng district a few minutes from the centre. The futuristic curved building takes the largest ships alongside: no shuttle, the call starts immediately.
Partly, yes. Light rail station C09 is at the terminal door and the Pier-2 Art Center is a kilometre away. The city centre is about ten minutes by taxi or metro, and more distant sites such as Lotus Pond need the metro.
Converted former port warehouses steps from the quays: giant sculptures, murals, designer shops and cafés along disused railway tracks. It is the symbol of an industrial city’s transformation into the cultural showcase of southern Taiwan.
Twin pagodas on the edge of Lotus Pond, the best-known image of Kaohsiung. Tradition says you enter through the dragon’s mouth and leave through the tiger’s for good fortune. Allow about twenty minutes by metro from the centre.
Yes, even if you are not changing lines. Its Dome of Light, an enormous multicoloured glass canopy, is one of the city’s symbols and sits on the way to Lotus Pond. It costs nothing but stepping off the train.
By ferry from the old harbour: a ten-minute crossing with frequent service. Cijin is the historic birthplace of Kaohsiung, with its street of seafood stalls, its white lighthouse and its black sand beach facing the Taiwan Strait.
The white lighthouse above the channel, the black sand beach and, up the hill, the guns of Cihou Fort, built in the late nineteenth century. The main street is lined with seafood stalls: the ideal place for a plate of sautéed shrimp before heading back to the ship.
The Pier-2 Art Center on foot, then the metro to Lotus Pond with a stop at Formosa Boulevard — or the ferry to Cijin for the lighthouse and the seafood. The two rarely fit together: choose between the city and the island.
Grilled seafood, the region’s calling card, and iced papaya milk, the favourite drink of southern Taiwan. The Liuhe night market, the most famous, closes its street to traffic for fried squid, stir-fried noodles and tropical juices.
Two options open up: Fo Guang Shan monastery, about thirty kilometres out, with its seated bronze Buddha facing an avenue of pagodas, one of the largest Buddhist sites in Asia; or Tower 85, from which the scale of the port becomes clear — kilometres of containers, cranes and ships.