Wulai Old Street Introduction
Wulai Old Street refers to the area around Wulai Street, Waterfall Road, and the Circular Mountain Road. The shop signs are uniformly designed, giving a tidy appearance, and most stores showcase indigenous characteristics, allowing visitors to taste unique indigenous mountain cuisine such as charcoal-grilled wild boar, hot spring eggs, pandanus rice, bamboo rice, Mayang cuisine, mountain fiddlehead fern, and pearl onion, which are rarely seen elsewhere. Additionally, there are local specialties like millet wine and millet mochi, making great souvenirs for friends and family. Visitors can also enjoy indigenous song and dance performances, experiencing the vibrant energy of the indigenous people. When Wulai is mentioned, hot springs come to mind; in the Atayal language, it refers to a spring that emits steam. Both the original Atayal people and later Han Chinese and Japanese have come to love these hot springs for their beauty benefits and their ability to improve gastrointestinal diseases, with many hot spring inns lining the old street. Atayal culture is also a focus of tourism in the area; a visit to the Atayal Cultural Museum can provide insight into the rich weaving, architecture, and belief culture of the tribe, as well as allow tasting of various indigenous foods available on the old street. For those seeking to be close to nature, taking the Wulai trolley car offers a view of the mountain and forest scenery along the way, or riding the gondola for a close-up view of the waterfall and mountain mist. Wulai District hosts a cherry blossom festival every year from February to April, featuring mountain cherry, Fuji cherry, Yoshino cherry, and Yaezakura cherry blossoms in succession, attracting large numbers of tourists to the mountains to admire the blossoms.
