Tainan to Kaohsiung City train

Trains from Tainan to Kaohsiung City start at €11.88 and take 1h 11m at their fastest.

Fares

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Kaohsiung, Taiwan: Cargo ship En Cheng entering the harbour of Kaohsiung.

The Trains from Tainan to Kaohsiung City starts at €11.88 and takes 1h 11m door to door, run by 2 operators over 49 km, with around 4 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 90 days before departure.

Checked September 13, 2026Priced for September 21, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 1h 11mDoor to door
  • 27mMoving
  • €11.88 to €15.19From
  • 06:29 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 4Per day
  • 1.6 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on September 21, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€11.88 to €15.19 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €13.54Mon14
  2. about €12.99Tue15
  3. about €13.54Wed16
  4. about €15.19Thu17
  5. about €11.89Fri18
  6. about €14.64Sat19
  7. about €13.54Sun20
  8. about €11.88Mon21
  9. about €11.88Tue22
  10. about €11.88Wed23
  11. about €11.88Thu24
  12. about €11.88Fri25
  13. about €11.88Sat26
  14. about €11.88Sun27

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 21, 2026

Cheapest€11.88
  1. Taiwan Railway Administration TR247306:4127m07:08Tainan TR stationKaohsiung main station

Door to door 1h 11mCO2 1.6 kgChanges 0Refundable

Carriers

Rail operators

  • Taiwan Railway Administration
  • Taiwan Railway Corporation

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

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

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Booking window

When to book Tainan to Kaohsiung City

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €11.8890 days
  2. €11.8860 days
  3. €11.8845 days
  4. €11.8830 days
  5. €11.8821 days
  6. €11.8814 days
  7. €13.547 days
  8. €13.543 days
  9. €13.541 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €11.88.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 14 percent. The most expensive point is €13.54, 7 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €11.88Sun
  2. €11.88Mon
  3. €11.88Tue
  4. €11.88Wed
  5. €11.88Thu
  6. €11.88Fri
  7. €11.88Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Tainan

Rail
  • Tainan TR station
  • Tainan HSR station
  • South Tainan Station

Kaohsiung

Rail
  • Kaohsiung main station
  • Kaohsiung Port Station
  • Kaohsiung Railway Workshop
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 49 km against 43 km in a straight line, a detour of 14 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Magong, Chiayi City, Yuanlin, Changhua. The gap between arriving and leaving is 45 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Tainan at 06:29 and the last at 07:30, across 4 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Tainan to Kaohsiung City

The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Train from Tainan to Kaohsiung City take?

The Train from Tainan to Kaohsiung City takes 1h 11m door to door, of which 27m is spent moving. The route runs 49 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Train from Tainan to Kaohsiung City cost?

The Train from Tainan to Kaohsiung City starts at €11.88 for one passenger, as of September 13, 2026. A typical fare is €22.34. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Train from Tainan to Kaohsiung City?

2 operators run the Train from Tainan to Kaohsiung City: Taiwan Railway Administration, Taiwan Railway Corporation. Between them they file around 4 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Train from Tainan to Kaohsiung City use?

The Train from Tainan to Kaohsiung City leaves from Tainan TR station and arrives at Kaohsiung main station. Allow about 44m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Train from Tainan to Kaohsiung City?

Fares for the Train from Tainan to Kaohsiung City bottom out around 90 days ahead, at €11.88. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 14 percent, measured on September 13, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Train from Tainan to Kaohsiung City produce?

The Train from Tainan to Kaohsiung City produces about 1.6 kg of CO2 per passenger over 49 km, which works out at roughly 33 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

What is provided on board the Train from Tainan to Kaohsiung City?

Operators on the Train from Tainan to Kaohsiung City publish Power outlets, Wi-Fi. That is what 2 carriers on this corridor state about their own fleets, across a journey of 1h 11m door to door. Where a carrier publishes nothing, this page lists nothing for 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.

Derived from service area No carrier record names this exact pair. The operators listed publish a service area covering both places at a distance their mode plausibly carries people, which is evidence that the corridor is served and not evidence of a specific service. Pages state which, because presenting the two as the same thing would be dishonest.

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 Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Tainan to Kaohsiung City on September 13, 2026: 49 km of route against 43 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 2 operators a cheapest fare of €11.88, and 1h 11m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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