【Tuesday Travel Stay】Taocheng Tea Looks - A Six-Sensory Experiential Cultural and Creative Design Hotel

By the MOOK Scenic Spots Home Travel Life Network Editorial Team

“Taiwan’s premier cultural and creative design hotel brand—ChengYi Cultural Tourism Group” currently has three branches nationwide: “Chiayi Inn,” “Tamsui Breeze,” and “Taichung Bird Days.” Notably: on June 21, 2014, the group’s fourth brand-new branch, “Taocheng Tea Looks,” will grandly open at 516 Zhongxiao Road, Chiayi City, warmly welcoming premium domestic travel as well as Asian overseas independent travelers, with average room rates starting from NT$4,000.

ChengYi Cultural Tourism’s “Taocheng Tea Looks” reinterprets local new architecture, challenges non-traditional structural systems, and integrates technology, eco-friendly green materials with local physical environmental system equipment. From the architectural approach, one can clearly see ChengYi Cultural Tourism’s passion for both architecture and the environment, while also reflecting the potential of technology in spatial practice. ChengYi Cultural Tourism’s “Taocheng Tea Looks” provides travelers with the perfect pause, evokes the poetry of tea travel, and sparks boundless imagination of localized experiences worldwide.

“ChengYi Cultural Tourism Taocheng Tea Looks” is Asia’s first experience-based cultural and creative design hotel themed around “Alishan Tea.” With a focus on six-sensory experiences, it offers every visitor the extraordinary sensations of hearing tea, smelling tea, seeing tea, touching tea, tasting tea, and feeling tea. The tea warehouse story wall on the lobby wall, and the stairwell designed with the theme “A Poetic Tea Journey,” display old-style suitcases and rustic teacups and utensils, quietly fermenting in time. Inside the guest rooms, the scenery of Alishan and Chiayi’s local mountain city, curated spaces for exhibitions, tea-dyed handicraft experiences, and tea journey art-themed rooms—all facility details within the hotel abound with interesting tea-related knowledge and charm.

Taocheng Tea Looks greets weary travelers with a standing counter. Upon taking a seat, guests are served organic welcome tea from the Alishan tea gardens, with options such as Shan Zhi Dao Green Tea and Yun Na Li Black Tea to choose from; allowing travelers to begin imagining their tea journey amid the fragrant and soothing tea aroma.

As soon as the guest room door opens, the delicate and bright scenery of Alishan fills the space, with every carefully designed focal point bringing a leisurely local aesthetic. The room also comes with custom hand-fired teaware from Taocheng Tea Looks, paired with organic Alishan tea for guests to enjoy hot and fragrant; plus, specially made tea bath sachets are provided, so that after a day of travel, guests can pour the tea boiled from the sachets into the bathtub, cleansing travel fatigue in a medley of tea aromas, and refreshing themselves anew.