On 1 January 2025 the old Kuo-Kuang station beside Taipei Main closed and every route moved into the Taipei Bus Station tower — the island’s coach network now departs from a single downtown building.
The Taipei Bus Station (台北轉運站) stacks three floors of numbered bus bays inside the Qsquare mall-and-cinema complex beside Taipei Main: UBus and Kuo-Kuang on the lower floors, Ho-Hsin, Aloha and KML above. Since January 2025, when Kuo-Kuang abandoned its own aging terminal between the M1 and M2 metro exits, the consolidation is complete — every major intercity coach now starts here or at Banqiao.
The route map covers the island clockwise and back: Sun Moon Lake (1833), Alishan (1835), Taichung in two hours, Kaohsiung overnight, Yilan through the Hsuehshan tunnel every few minutes on KML. Premium three-abreast “luxury” coaches run the west-coast trunk routes.
The east is coach country: Yilan, Luodong and Jiaoxi have no HSR, and the KML buses through the 12.9-km Hsuehshan tunnel beat the coastal TRA trains on time. Sun Moon Lake and Puli are direct by coach, a transfer puzzle by rail. And for the budget math: Taipei–Kaohsiung by coach is roughly half the HSR fare.
Practicalities: buy at the bay-side counters or on the apps (iBus/TBS), board by platform number on the right floor, and remember the 1819 airport coach — 24 hours, ~NT$140, 60–70 minutes — as the fallback when the Airport MRT stops at night.
Use coaches for the northeast (Yilan/Jiaoxi), the central mountains (Sun Moon Lake, Puli) and any midnight airport run. For everything on the west-coast spine, compare fares honestly: the coach saves money, the HSR saves an hour or more — choose per trip, not by habit.
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