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Chiayi City

Chiayi (嘉義), also spelled Jiayi, is the main city of the Chiayi region, southern Taiwan. It is surrounded by Chiayi County. Wikivoyage

Population 251,938 (Wikidata)

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Before you go

Emergency numbers in Taiwan

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Taiwan
Tourist office · 890 m Visitor Information Centre

Getting there

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Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Markets

  • Wenhua Night Market

    文化夜市

    No hours mapped

    260 m from the centre

  • 東市場

    No hours mapped

    470 m from the centre

  • 北興市場

    No hours mapped

    690 m from the centre

  • Jialefu Night Market

    嘉樂福夜市

    No hours mapped

    2.0 km from the centre

  • 彌陀夜市

    No hours mapped

    2.4 km from the centre

Markets mapped on OpenStreetMap, with their hours where someone has added them. Check locally before you go.

Eating nearby

All 96 places to eat

Somewhere to run

Getting around

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Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 9 October 2026. Description from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.