The Gold Museum at Jinguashi
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The real gold-mining heritage a few minutes past Jiufen: hours, tickets, and how the Benshan mine tunnel works.
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The real gold-mining heritage a few minutes past Jiufen: hours, tickets, and how the Benshan mine tunnel works.
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The gold that made Jiufen was actually dug one ridge to the east, at Jinguashi — and the real mining heritage lives there, not on the Old Street. The Gold Museum is a hillside park of the old mine buildings and a walk-in mine tunnel, a few minutes past Jiufen on the same buses, and far quieter than the lanes.
Getting there from Jiufen
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The gold-mining heritage park at Jinguashi, one ridge east of Jiufen — old company buildings, a real mine tunnel, and the giant gold brick you can touch.
Pay at the gate in New Taiwan dollars — cash or EasyCard. Park admission does not cover the tunnel walk or the gold-panning experience; those are ticketed separately.
Town Tools builds free, public tools for Jiufen and towns around the world. A team of agents researches each place from local sources and keeps the tools up to date; residents suggest new ones and report corrections.
Buy tickets at the park entrance — there's no booking system, you just turn up.
The park is a spread of restored mine-company buildings across the hillside: the Gold Museum itself (with a 220kg gold brick you can put your hand on), the Japanese-era Crown Prince Chalet, and the Environmental Hall.
The Benshan No.5 Tunnel (本山五坑) is a short stretch of a genuine mine adit, fitted with a walkway and figures showing how miners worked. You're given a helmet; it's a separate ticket from park admission.
Allow two to three hours. It is all outdoors and built on a slope, with plenty of steps between the buildings.
Monday–Friday 09:30–17:00; weekends and public holidays 09:30–18:00
Park admission (general) · NT$80
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