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Illustrative Shui-Tou Settlement in Kinmen County is a historic village that preserves intact Min-Nan traditional architecture and overseas-Chinese heritage. The cluster houses signature spaces like De-Yue Tower and the Jin-Shui Story House, and structures its visitor experience around 'family co-touring': puzzle-stops, hand-craft sessions and walking tours let adults and children alike absorb local culture - clothing, writing, food and crafts - through play. The activity is designed in eight stations; completing any five earns a red-turtle-rice cake and souvenir. Ideal for families and school groups wanting a deep dive into Kinmen's historical threads and lived memory.
Illustrative Lanyang Original Pavilion in Yilan City is a cultural-creative park themed around indigenous culture, repurposed from former Yilan County Government staff dormitories. The grounds house indigenous-style cultural-creative shops, restaurants and cafés, and regularly host holiday markets, suckling-pig roasts and DIY workshops. Admission to the whole venue is free, making it a great stop for families, pets and photo-loving travelers.
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Illustrative →Lakeside Forest Coffee
Jinshuiloutai Lakeside Forest Café on Wenhua Road in Douliou City, Yunlin County, blends South Seas flair with lake-side scenery, offering spacious outdoor seating, floating bird's-nest installations, water pavilions, swings and a skywalk as popular photo spots. The grounds are pet-friendly — pets may enter on a leash. Beyond coffee and set meals, the café offers signature desserts and a nine-grid platter. Admission is around NT$200, partly deductible from spending; the site has parking and a B1 basement seating area, well-suited to couples, families and pets, balancing leisure and photo needs.
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Illustrative →Jinmaoli Clock & Coffee
Jin-mao-li Watch & Coffee at No. 133 Zhongzheng Road in Tuku Township, Yunlin County, was originally a watch shop of 70 years and now combines a café with a watch display, serving hand-pour single-origin coffee, espresso drinks and local teas paired with daily desserts. The interior features a vintage watch wall, with an antique atmosphere, and the shop is pet-friendly — three resident shop dogs and one cat regularly greet customers. Well-suited to travellers or locals who want to enjoy coffee and a nostalgic vibe at a leisurely pace.
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Illustrative →Balcony Sense
Balcony Sense in Douliou, Yunlin, is a café and tea house themed around a romantic flower room reimagined from an old house. The shop pairs dried-flower and preserved-flower workshops with desserts, drinks and light meals, and offers a pet-friendly zone and a shoes-off tatami seating area, creating an artsy, nature-infused atmosphere. Guests can spend around two hours of afternoon tea surrounded by flowers and greenery, well-suited to travellers who love art, floristry and pet companionship.
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Illustrative →Yawen Bali Coast
Arwin Bali Coast Tourism Factory in Douliou City, Yunlin County, is a themed park that blends South Seas flair with a pet-friendly design. The grounds feature Bali-style thatched huts, an artificial beach, palm trees and a welcoming waterfall, along with rainbow stairs, 3D graffiti walls and a mirror pool, creating a holiday-like foreign atmosphere. Admission is free, making it well-suited to bringing pets, families or couples for photo ops, walks and handmade soap workshops — a rare coastal-themed tourist factory in the Yunlin region.
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Illustrative →Yangguo Hotpot
Yang Guo is one of the few stone shabu-shabu hot pot chains in Taiwan to actively promote a pet-friendly policy, offering a vegetable-focused self-service bar built around whole-food ingredients, along with seafood, meat and a variety of soup bases. The shop spans two floors, with drinks, the self-service bar, ice cream and restrooms upstairs and a clear, well-planned flow. Beyond hot pot, mains like braised pork rice, pad-krapao pork and steamed noodles are available, well-suited to customers who want to bring their dogs, value vegetable quality or prefer a clean, light hot pot experience. Branches tend to sit in convenient spots — near No. 4 Park or MRT Yongan Market station — so a post-meal stroll is easy.
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Illustrative →Magic Cat House
Magic Meow (Mo-fa Mi-lu) is a pet-friendly café in the Yongkang District of Tainan, with multiple resident cats and dogs that customers can share a table with. The menu focuses on pasta, cheese toast and other light meals, with large portions and somewhat higher prices, well-suited to those who want to spend a relaxed time with their pets. The shop offers shoe changes, gate management, board games and a Switch, letting guests enjoy the food while interacting and playing with the pets.
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