Hualien Pacific Hot Spring Festival 2026
Hualien County's hot spring festival linking the Ruisui and Antong spring areas for a month of autumn weekends.
33 events
Events across the Eastern region, checked against official sources.

Hualien County's hot spring festival linking the Ruisui and Antong spring areas for a month of autumn weekends.
Taitung County's performing arts season at the county arts centre, closing with three ticketed shows in November.
The Zhiben spring area's year round season under the national Taiwan Good Soup programme.
Fuli Township's autumn harvest music festival, two days of concerts and a farmers market under Sixty Stone Mountain.
Hualien's stone sculpture festival, with an open air creation camp at NilaI Plaza and exhibitions running into January.
Taiwan's flagship Indigenous music festival takes over Taitung Forest Park for a weekend.
A charity marathon in the Zhiben hot spring valley outside Taitung City.
The famous sea to summit climb from the Hualien coast to Wuling Pass at 3,275 metres.
International dragon boat racing on Liyu Lake, moved to November for 2026.
WSL QS 6,000 international surfing at Jinzun Harbor, the highest-tier surf event ever held in Taiwan.
An extreme full distance triathlon ending on Mount Hehuan, part of the XTRI World Tour.
A two day music and culture gathering in the Taroko foothill village of Tongmen, run by the East Rift Valley NSA.
A winter light festival on the north shore of Liyu Lake, lit nightly through the end of January.
Hualien City's New Year's Eve countdown concert at the Dongdamen Night Market.
Taitung's New Year's Eve concert at the seaside park, the east coast's biggest countdown stage.
Hualien City's Lunar New Year lantern festival along Sunrise Boulevard.
Hualien's five day Lunar New Year market on Sunrise Boulevard, for festive food and gifts.
Taitung City's Lantern Festival season of blessing lanterns at the seaside park.
Taitung's Bombarding Master Handan ritual, where a bare chested volunteer is pelted with firecrackers, is expected on Lantern Festival day, 20 February 2027.
Two days of festival-format triathlon at Flowing Lake in Taitung Forest Park.
A coastal half marathon on the Pacific shore south of Hualien City, by Ocean Park.
A mountain ultramarathon climbing the Southern Cross-Island Highway from Guanshan into Wulu Gorge.
Guided firefly watching on the Liyu Lake south trail, on Friday and Saturday evenings in spring.
An ultra circumnavigation of Lanyu, Orchid Island, off the Taitung coast.
Taiwan's classic two-day east coast cycling challenge, riding from Hualien to Taitung and back over one April weekend, expected in April 2027.
Asia's largest triathlon festival returns to Taitung's Flowing Lake in late April, date not yet confirmed by the organiser.
Artists in residence scatter land art along the Highway 11 coast, and on selected evenings the Moonlit Sea Concerts play on the lawn at Torik Visitor Center facing the Pacific.
Five nights of free outdoor concerts at Dongdamen Square open the summer season in Hualien, with headline pop acts and a different theme each night.
Dozens of hot air balloons from Taiwan and overseas fly over the Luye Highland tea plateau at dawn and dusk, with night glow shows on selected evenings.
Hualien County's summer takeover of Liyu Lake adds themed installations, free water activities and a night water and light show to the east coast's largest inland lake.
The Amis community of Dulan holds its Ilisin harvest festival on the village plaza each July, three days of song, dance and ceremony led by the age grade organisation.
Thousands of Indigenous dancers from Taiwan's Austronesian peoples gather in Hualien for four days of harvest ceremony, song and dance, food and craft stalls.
In August and September the daylily fields of Chike Mountain and Liushishi Mountain turn whole hillsides gold above the East Rift Valley.