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Bringing your own bike to Taiwan

From the bike box at the airport to your first ride, and back home again.

The short answerCheck your airline's bike rules first; this page doesn't cover airline fees. At Taoyuan Airport you can collect the bike as special baggage and, since March 2026, assemble it and wheel it to the Airport MRT, but don't ride it inside the terminal. A boxed or bagged bike within 165 cm on its longest side and 220 cm in total rides the Airport MRT free as luggage; an assembled bike goes on commuter trains only, at set times. Assembled bikes can't change to the Taipei MRT at Taipei Main Station. A foreign e-bike without Taiwan type approval may not be ridden on the road.

Facts below come from airport, metro, customs and law pages, each linked. Items marked News report come from news coverage of an official announcement, and Not confirmed means we couldn't find an official answer yet. Taoyuan Airport's own website blocked our checks, so open it to confirm the terminal details before you fly.

Arriving at Taoyuan International Airport (TPE)

  • Taoyuan Metro says that, in step with Taoyuan International Airport Corporation adjusting its rules for bikes inside the terminals, since March 10, 2026 arriving passengers can collect a bike as special baggage, assemble it on the spot, and wheel it through the airport and onto the Airport MRT. The airport's own page could not be opened to confirm this. News report Taoyuan Metro Corporation (press release, March 3, 2026)
  • The Taipei Times (with CNA) reported the same press release: inbound travelers can assemble their bicycles after collecting them from the special baggage claim area and wheel them through the airport onto the Airport MRT. News report Taipei Times, March 4, 2026
  • Riding is a different matter from wheeling. In January 2025 the airport company announced that passengers may not ride bicycles, electric suitcases, scooters or skateboards inside the terminals; they must be wheeled or carried on a baggage trolley. News report Taiwan News, January 4, 2025, citing the airport company's Facebook post
  • Taiwan Pelican Express (T-CAT) runs airport luggage counters at TPE: Terminal 1, 1F arrival hall south side, 09:00 to 17:00; Terminal 1, 1F departure hall north side (near check-in counter 12), 24 hours; Terminal 2, 1F arrival hall south side, 24 hours; Terminal 2, 3F departure hall south side (near check-in counter 19), 06:00 to 23:00. Services listed: luggage pickup and home delivery, luggage storage, packing, baggage wrapping and sale of packing materials. Taiwan Pelican Express
  • For special luggage such as bicycles, Pelican Express asks you to call its Taoyuan Airport line, 0800-043-043 (landline only), for a quote. Its standard airport delivery covers items up to 180 cm in total (length plus width plus height); larger items are quoted separately. Taiwan Pelican Express
  • Where the special or oversized baggage belts and counters are in each terminal, whether there is a set place to assemble a bike, whether airport luggage storage takes a bike box, and whether baggage trolleys may go into the Airport MRT stations. The airport's website (taoyuan-airport.com) returned a bot challenge (HTTP 403) and could not be read. Not confirmed Taoyuan International Airport Corporation
  • Packing, size, weight and fees for a bike on the plane are set by your airline. Check your own airline's sports equipment rules before you book; Cycle.tw does not list them. Our advice Taoyuan Metro Corporation

From TPE to Taipei on the Airport MRT

  • All 22 Airport MRT stations accept bikes, including A12 Airport Terminal 1, A13 Airport Terminal 2 and A14a Airport Hotel since March 10, 2026. Taoyuan Metro Corporation
  • Assembled bike: commuter trains only, never express trains. Board at doors 1-1 and 1-2 of the first car or 4-2 and 4-3 of the last car, 2 bikes per door area and 8 per train. If the door area is full, wait for the next train. Taoyuan Metro Corporation
  • Entry times with an assembled bike: weekends, national holidays and adjusted days off, all day; government working days and make-up workdays, 10:00 to 16:00 and 22:00 to end of service. No entry at other times. Taoyuan Metro Corporation
  • Ticket: a rider-plus-bike single-journey ticket bought from staff at the station information counter, one rider and one bike per ticket; Taoyuan Metro describes the price as the distance fare plus a fixed NT$50. Enter and exit through the service gate with staff help. No escalators: use stairs, lifts (2 bikes per lift at most) or ramps, and walk the bike. Taoyuan Metro Corporation
  • Boxed or bagged bike: a bike that is folded or disassembled and properly packed, with the longest side 165 cm or less and length plus width plus height 220 cm or less, rides free as ordinary luggage at any time during service hours. Taoyuan Metro Corporation
  • Measure your bike box or bag before you fly. If it is longer than 165 cm or over 220 cm in total, the luggage rule does not cover it, and you would need to assemble the bike and follow the full-size rules, including the weekday time windows. Our advice Taoyuan Metro Corporation
  • Bike size limit on the Airport MRT: 180 cm long, 120 cm high, 70 cm wide. Only pedal bikes and electric-assist bikes with the power switched off; petrol-powered bikes, electric bicycles, tandems and non-standard bikes are not allowed. Taoyuan Metro Corporation
  • Taoyuan Metro's passenger notice says people who are not metro staff may not bring or use hand carts or similar devices in stations and trains, unless the items meet the luggage size rules and the company permits it. Taoyuan Metro Corporation
  • Changing at Taipei Main Station: Taipei Metro does not admit full-size bikes at Taipei Main Station (R10/BL12), so you cannot transfer from the Airport MRT to the Taipei MRT there with an assembled bike. A packed bike within 165 cm and 220 cm counts as luggage on Taipei Metro too. Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation
  • Whether the in-town check-in at A1 Taipei Main Station and A3 New Taipei Industrial Park accepts a bike box. Taoyuan Metro's page describes the process and refers other rules to the airport company's in-town check-in page, which could not be opened. Not confirmed Taoyuan Metro Corporation

Taipei Songshan Airport (TSA)

  • Songshan Airport's bicycle page (Chinese version) says arriving passengers can take their bikes on to other transport, and that for round-island cycling routes you can ask at the Tourism Administration's visitor information centre. The English version of the page does not include this sentence. Taipei Songshan Airport (Civil Aviation Administration)
  • A YouBike 2.0 station with 20 docks (40 spaces) is at the corner of Dunhua North Road and Fujin Street, on the northeast side in Dunbei Park. Taipei Songshan Airport (Civil Aviation Administration)
  • Songshan Airport's MRT station is on the Wenhu Line (brown line, BR), in front of Terminal 1. Taipei Metro does not admit full-size bikes at any Wenhu Line station, so an assembled bike cannot use the MRT here. A folded or disassembled bike packed within 165 cm longest side and 220 cm total travels as ordinary luggage. Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation; Taipei Songshan Airport MRT page
  • Taiwan Pelican Express has a counter in Terminal 1, 1F arrival and departure hall (near exit E), open 05:00 to 22:00. Songshan Airport lists its services as delivery, packing, baggage wrapping, sale of packing materials and large-item luggage storage. For special luggage such as bicycles, Pelican asks you to call (02) 6617-6200 for a quote. Taiwan Pelican Express; Taipei Songshan Airport
  • Songshan Airport's smart luggage lockers cost NT$80 (large) or NT$60 (medium) per 3 hours. The page gives no locker dimensions. Taipei Songshan Airport (Civil Aviation Administration)
  • Whether the Pelican counter's large-item storage or the lockers can take a bike box. No Songshan page says so. Not confirmed Taipei Songshan Airport (Civil Aviation Administration)

Kaohsiung International Airport (KHH)

  • Kaohsiung Airport's transport page has a bicycle section. For bikes on international flights it says to check your airline's baggage rules; for domestic flights it links UNI Air and Mandarin Airlines. Kaohsiung International Airport (Civil Aviation Administration)
  • For bicycle storage, Kaohsiung Airport says to contact the Phoenix baggage counter on the 3F of the international terminal, 07-8063366. Its services page lists Phoenix as a luggage storage, packing and shipping counter on the west side of the 3F departure hall, open 05:00 to 20:30. Kaohsiung International Airport (Civil Aviation Administration)
  • Bikes on buses from the airport: Kaohsiung Airport says to contact each operator. It lists 0918 Kenting Express (07-8032123), 9117 and 9117A Kaohsiung to Kenting (0800-777-767) and 111 Tainan to Xiaogang Airport Express (0800-889-116). Kaohsiung International Airport (Civil Aviation Administration)
  • A Kaohsiung YouBike station, Kaohsiung Park, is across Zhongshan 4th Road from the airport entrance, with 8 bikes; walk over by the pedestrian crossing near the domestic scooter parking entrance. For round-island route information the airport points to the Tourism Administration travel service centre at the airport, 07-8057888. Kaohsiung International Airport (Civil Aviation Administration)
  • Kaohsiung MRT: Kaohsiung International Airport station (R4) is not on Kaohsiung Metro's list of stations closed to full-size bikes. Full-size bikes ride in set time windows with an NT$80 rider-plus-bike ticket; a non-motorized folding bike that folds to 220 cm total or less rides free at any time. Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corporation

Customs: bringing your bike into Taiwan

  • Used personal belongings you owned abroad, in reasonable quantity, are duty-free after customs review if each item or set has a dutiable value of NT$10,000 or less. Other personal items (not controlled goods, tobacco or alcohol) are also duty-free up to NT$35,000 in total. Laws & Regulations Database (Ministry of Justice)
  • Taipei Customs says anything over these limits must be declared to customs, and duty is charged on the excess. Taipei Customs, Customs Administration
  • If your luggage is over the duty-free allowance, you must fill in a customs declaration and use the red channel. If you are unsure whether you qualify for the green channel, the regulation says to use the red channel. Laws & Regulations Database (Ministry of Justice)
  • Visitors without residence in Taiwan, such as foreign nationals, who bring dutiable items for their own use can apply for registration and release instead of paying a duty deposit. The same items must leave Taiwan again within six months of entry (or an approved extension), and you must cancel the registration with customs; otherwise customs charges the duty. Laws & Regulations Database (Ministry of Justice)
  • A bike shipped separately, not on your flight, is unaccompanied baggage. You must list it on the customs declaration when you arrive. It may arrive up to six months after you, and it must be declared within 15 days of its arrival. Laws & Regulations Database (Ministry of Justice)
  • Customs, not Cycle.tw, decides what your bike is worth and whether duty applies. If it may be worth more than these allowances, or you are not sure, take the red channel and ask there. Our advice Laws & Regulations Database (Ministry of Justice)

E-bikes and batteries

  • In Taiwan an electric-assist bicycle may be ridden on roads only after it has passed testing and type approval and carries the approval label (Road Traffic Management and Penalty Act, Article 69-1). Laws & Regulations Database (Ministry of Justice)
  • An electric-assist bicycle without Taiwan type approval that is ridden on the road is confiscated. A type-approved one ridden without its label is fined NT$600 to NT$1,200 and stopped (Article 71). Laws & Regulations Database (Ministry of Justice)
  • Flying with the battery: Songshan Airport's lithium battery page, citing the Civil Aviation Administration's list of dangerous goods passengers may carry, says lithium batteries over 160 Wh, giving electric vehicle batteries as an example, may be neither carried on nor checked in and must be shipped separately with a declaration. Spare batteries go in carry-on only; those from 100 Wh to 160 Wh need the airline's approval, at most two each. Taipei Songshan Airport (Civil Aviation Administration)
  • On metros: Taipei Metro and Taoyuan Metro admit electric-assist bikes only with the power switched off, and Taipei Metro also requires the yellow lightning-bolt compliance label on the frame. Throttle electric bicycles (micro electric two-wheelers) are not admitted. Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation; Taoyuan Metro Corporation
  • Battery rules for flying are set by each airline as well as the aviation authorities. Check with your airline before you plan to fly with an e-bike. Our advice Taipei Songshan Airport (Civil Aviation Administration)

Insurance

  • YouBike's free public-bicycle injury insurance covers accidents while riding a YouBike rented with the insured card, and its third-party liability cover applies during a YouBike rental. Neither applies when you ride your own bike. YouBike Co., Ltd.
  • YouBike's insurance page suggests that people who want more cover can buy personal accident, travel or specific-activity insurance themselves. Cycle.tw does not recommend any product. YouBike Co., Ltd.

Taking the bike home

  • Since March 10, 2026 you can wheel an assembled bike onto an Airport MRT commuter train, within the entry windows, to A12 or A13, then pack it and check it in as special baggage under the airport's and your airline's rules. Taoyuan Metro Corporation
  • On a weekday an assembled bike cannot enter an Airport MRT station before 10:00 or between 16:00 and 22:00. For a morning flight, either travel the day before or the night before after 22:00, or pack the bike within 165 cm and 220 cm so it rides as luggage. Our advice Taoyuan Metro Corporation
  • The Pelican Express counters at TPE and Songshan, and the Phoenix counter at Kaohsiung, list packing services and, at TPE and Songshan, packing materials for sale. None of their pages says they sell bike boxes. Taiwan Pelican Express; Kaohsiung International Airport

Airport buses and taxis

  • No official bike rule was found for the TPE to Taipei airport buses. Kuo-Kuang Motor Transport's website reset every connection, and Dayou Bus's homepage has nothing on bikes. Ask the operator before you count on a bus. Not confirmed Kuo-Kuang Motor Transport
  • No official source on taking a bike in a taxi was found, so Cycle.tw makes no claim about it. For taxis in general, link the Inside Taipei taxis page (same-language pair, per WRITING.md). Our advice Inside Taipei

Riding away from the airport

  • Taoyuan Metro's release covers wheeling an assembled bike through the airport and onto the Airport MRT. It says nothing about riding on the roads out of the airport. News report Taoyuan Metro Corporation
  • Whether bikes may be ridden out of TPE on the roads, and by which roads. No official source was found (the airport's site could not be read). Not confirmed Taoyuan International Airport Corporation

Getting or storing a bike box

  • No official or operator page was found saying where in Taiwan you can get a bike box, or store one while you ride. Giant's Taiwan site was searched with no result. The airport courier counters quote bikes by phone (TPE 0800-043-043, Songshan (02) 6617-6200), and Kaohsiung Airport names the Phoenix counter (07-8063366) for bike storage. Not confirmed Kaohsiung International Airport (Civil Aviation Administration)

Taxis from the airportFor taxis and ride apps, see getting a taxi in Taipei on Inside Taipei.

Checked November 2026