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The Taipei Capital Core Walk starts at the white, blue tiled National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall and passes through the ceremonial Liberty Square Archway to the Qing era East Gate, standing alone on its traffic circle. From there it follows Ketagalan Boulevard to the Presidential Office Building, the old Japanese governor general's palace, then loops past the Taipei 228 Memorial Museum and the domed National Taiwan Museum to finish at Taipei Main Station, about 3.6 kilometers and 50 minutes.

The Taipei Old Quarters Walk starts at the incense filled Bangka Lungshan Temple and the quieter, finely carved Qingshui Temple nearby, crosses Ximending at the red brick Red House, and passes Zhongshan Hall, where Japanese rule over Taiwan formally ended in 1945. Heading north through the Qing era North Gate and past the street corner where the 228 Incident began, the route finishes at the tiny, incense wrapped Xiahai City God Temple on Dihua Street, about 3.8 kilometers and 58 minutes.

Both walks are flat and mostly shaded by arcades or park trees, but Taipei's heat and sudden afternoon showers from May through October make an umbrella worth carrying on either route. The Capital Core Walk reads like a civics lesson in stone and bronze, while the Old Quarters Walk moves at the older, slower pace of incense, tea shops and narrow lanes, and the two pair naturally into a single day with the metro linking their ends.