Travel to Chiayi City

Every way to reach Chiayi City: 3 modes compared, with fares.

Chiayi City is reachable from 26 places across 2 countries by 3 modes, on services run by 9 operators. The cheapest arrival costs €10.07 and the fastest takes 1h 15m door to door. The nearest origin is 48 km away.

Priced for 8 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

Arriving

How people reach Chiayi City

One row per mode that calls here. Reach is the furthest origin that mode serves in a straight line.
ModeOriginsFromFastestReachOperators
Train46€11.881h 15m226 km3
Coach44€10.071h 40m226 km5
Flight1€44.393h 58m265 km1
  • €10.07 to €44.39Fare range
  • 26Places you can arrive from
  • 2Countries
  • 9Operators

€10.07 to €44.39 for one passenger across the 3 routes priced below, all of them on 8 October 2026. A single figure hides which end of that a journey sits at. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

The train gets you into Chiayi City. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Chiayi City for the night the train gets in

Sort by distance from Sakaechō Station (Chiayi City) and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Catchment

How far people travel to get here

Straight line distance from each origin we sell, not the distance the route runs.
DistanceRoutesShareNearest of them
Under 200 km7077%Erlin, 48 km
200 to 600 km2123%New Taipei City, 204 km
Origins

Which countries you can arrive from

Counted by route, so a country with several cities on the corridor counts once per route rather than once per city.
CountryRoutesShare
Taiwan9099%
China11%
Terminals

Stations, airports and ports in Chiayi City

Chiayi City

Rail
  • Sakaechō Station (Chiayi City)
  • Houbi Station
  • Zhuqi Station
Coach
  • 大林驛站
  • 大林轉運站
Air
  • CYI
Fares

The cheapest journeys into Chiayi City

Cheapest fare and fastest journey into Chiayi City, over the next three weeks.
RouteFromFastestDistance
Taichung to Chiayi City bus€10.072h78 km
Chang-hua to Chiayi City bus€10.071h 50m67 km
Changhua to Chiayi City bus€10.071h 49m66 km
Yuanlin to Chiayi City bus€10.071h 40m55 km
Tainan to Chiayi City bus€10.071h 43m59 km
Yongkang District to Chiayi City bus€10.071h 41m54 km
Fongshan District to Chiayi City bus€10.072h 24m95 km
Kaohsiung City to Chiayi City bus€10.072h 29m97 km
Yongkang District to Chiayi City train€11.881h 16m54 km
Changhua to Chiayi City train€11.881h 20m66 km
Tainan to Chiayi City train€11.881h 18m59 km
Yuanlin to Chiayi City train€11.881h 16m55 km
Chang-hua to Chiayi City train€11.891h 21m67 km
Erlin to Chiayi City train€11.891h 15m48 km
Hsinchu to Chiayi City bus€12.283h 9m156 km
Zhubei to Chiayi City bus€12.283h 14m161 km

The train gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Left luggage near Sakaechō Station (Chiayi City)

Most of the points near Sakaechō Station (Chiayi City) open before the first train and shut after the last one.

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Popular journeys to Chiayi City

Common questions about Travel to Chiayi City

How can I get to Chiayi City?

Chiayi City is reachable by 3 modes on our network, from 26 places, across 2 countries, on services run by 9 operators. The table on this page compares those modes on the cheapest fare, the fastest journey, how far each reaches and how many carriers run it.

What is the cheapest way to get to Chiayi City?

The cheapest way into Chiayi City is by coach, from €10.07 for one passenger. That is the lowest fare across all 26 origins we sell into Chiayi City over the next three weeks, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee.

What is the fastest way to get to Chiayi City?

The fastest journey into Chiayi City is by train, at 1h 15m door to door. The nearest origin we sell is 48 km away in a straight line, which is why a short fast journey exists at all on this list.

Which stations and airports does Chiayi City have?

Chiayi City has 6 named terminals on our network, including 3 rail stations and 1 airports. Among them are Sakaechō Station (Chiayi City), Houbi Station, Zhuqi Station. Every journey time on this page allows for reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

Where can I travel to Chiayi City from within 200 km?

70 of the routes we sell into Chiayi City start within 200 km. The nearest is Erlin, 48 km away in a straight line. Short corridors like these are usually the ones where a train or coach beats a flight door to door.

Where else can I go from Chiayi City in Taiwan?

Chiayi City connects to 26 places on our network across 2 countries the furthest of them 265 km away in a straight line. Taiwan routes are listed on this page, and the country pages carry the rest of the network around it.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Catchment, Fares, Door to door, Distances

Elsewhere in Taiwan

The wider region

The train is the simple part. What you do once you are in Chiayi City is somebody else's catalogue.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Chiayi City and across Taiwan

Day trips that leave Chiayi City in the morning and cover a good part of Taiwan by evening.

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