List of busiest railway stations in Taiwan

This article consists of the busiest railway stations in Republic of China (Taiwan), with the statistics being taken from the official data of the years 2020. Ridership numbers are for Inter-city rail systems, Taiwan Railways Administration (TRA) and Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) only, other rail transport like MRT are not included.

TRA[1]

Only the top 20 busiest TRA stations are shown.

Rank (2020)Rank (2019)ChangeStationPhotographAnnual entriesAnnual exitsDaily entries/exitsLineLocation
110Taipei 18,701,14918,379,806101,314West coastTaipei
220Taoyuan 9,122,1789,373,03950,533West coastTaoyuan
330Zhongli 8,621,5368,733,02247,417West coastTaoyuan
440Tainan 8,189,0008,352,13245,194West coastTainan
550Taichung 8,003,9368,066,30843,908TaichungTaichung
660Banqiao 7,431,8887,407,87440,546West coastNew Taipei
770Hsinchu 6,411,6376,444,52435,126West coast/NeiwanHsinchu City
89▲1Songshan 5,360,3045,342,01429,241West coastTaipei
911▲2Shulin 4,858,9094,904,74226,677West coastNew Taipei
108▼2Kaohsiung 4,840,1104,829,24726,419West coastKaohsiung
1110▼1Changhua 4,514,0644,618,23424,952Taichung/West coastChanghua
1215▲3Nangang 3,722,6183,912,50020,861West coastTaipei
13130New Zuoying 3,560,4883,546,03019,417West coastKaohsiung
1417▲3Xizhi 3,446,7693,565,20219,158West coastNew Taipei
1512▼3Hualien 3,509,3673,472,84619,077North-link/TaitungHualien
1614▼2Pingtung 3,407,4123,464,34318,775PingtungPingtung
1716▼1Chiayi 3,275,3263,271,36317,887West coastChiayi City
1819▲1Xike 3,218,3083,226,31917,608West coastNew Taipei
1918▼1Neili 3,129,2933,070,07616,938West coastTaoyuan
20200Yingge 2,879,6222,893,76215,774West coastNew Taipei

THSR[2]

All 12 THSR stations are shown. Ridership numbers were decreased in 2020 due to COVID-19 outbreak.[3]

Rank (2020)StationPhotographAnnual entriesAnnual exitsDaily entries/exitsChange (2019-2020)Growth rateLocation
1Taipei 13,177,59513,279,37975,485-14,071-16.26%Taipei
2Taichung 9,496,3059,427,10051,845-11,435-18.07%Taichung
3Zuoying 7,724,7307,714,46242,300-9,638-18.56%Kaohsiung
4Taoyuan 5,741,8545,845,72931,747-7,171-18.43%Taoyuan
5Hsinchu 5,413,4515,845,72930,088-3,790-11.19%Hsinchu County
6Banqiao 4,303,5594,304,21723,583-495-2.06%New Taipei
7Tainan 3,652,9773,634,92019,967-3,796-15.97%Tainan
8Nangang 2,632,4042,353,64113,660-976-6.67%Taipei
9Chiayi 2,417,1472,404,31713,209-2,357-15.14%Chiayi County
10Yunlin 1,209,9541,212,9716,638-973-12.49%Yunlin
11Miaoli 846,256860,4684,676-527-10.14%Miaoli
12Changhua 622,920632,9983,441-510-12.90%Changhua

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