Taishui is famous mainly because of its proximity to Taipei, convenient MRT transportation, convenient living functions, much cheaper prices than Taipei City, natural riverside and sea views, and leisurely pace of life, making Tamsui a suburb of Taipei City In satellite towns, many celebrities who like a quiet life will also choose to settle around Guandu and Tamsui MRT stations.
In the early years, a railway line passed through it (it has been abandoned). Now the Tamsui Line of the MRT is present. There are many historical sites in the town where early Westerners came to Taiwan for business development. The commercial and trade activities of Taipei’s ancestors were exported through Tamsui. Along the river, Haikou goes deep into the old Taipei city of Dadaocheng.
The free-learning Tamkang Middle School and Tamkang University in the town, as well as the Taipei University of the Arts in nearby Guandu, attract many students from the Taipei area to study. Thirty years ago, Tamsui Town was full of humanities and the folk song movement began. It is the birthplace of Taiwan's popular music, and there are many stars or art writers who graduated from these schools.
The construction in the past ten years, the romantic evening breeze of Tamsui Fisherman’s Wharf and the ferry, the night view of Guanyin Mountain on the other side of the Tamsui River, the riverside bicycle path connecting the middle reaches of the Tamsui River to the lower reaches, plus the light of Tamsui Looking at street snacks, Tai Tamsui has become a place suitable for a leisurely stroll.
Because the terrain is still obstructed by hills and road traffic development is inconvenient, traffic jams have been serious between Tamsui and Taipei in recent years. The Taipei Port that is about to be completed is also near Bali Tamsui. To say it is a small town is to underestimate Tamsui.