By KHT Staff. Images via Tainan in Toronto.
TAINAN — Tainan’s long-delayed underground railway station is now reportedly scheduled to open by the end of 2026, becoming the first major test of a national push to make Taiwan’s new railway stations lower-carbon and eventually “net-zero.”
The Tainan urban railway undergrounding project runs about 8.23 kilometers, from just south of Daciao Station (大橋車站) to about 0.6 kilometers south of the Dalin Road level crossing (大林路平交道). It includes an underground Tainan Station (臺南車站), two island platforms and four tracks, preservation of the historic old Tainan Station, and two new commuter stations: Linsen Station (林森站) and South Tainan Station (南臺南站). The official budget is listed at NT$41.2643 billion.
Sixteen new stations are expected to open over the next 10 years, with Tainan’s underground station scheduled to be the first of them to open by the end of 2026.
Tainan City said the undergrounding project completed full track connection on Jan. 30, 2026, and is moving toward first-stage underground service by the end of 2026. The city said Linsen Station and South Tainan Station are scheduled to open later, in September 2029 and September 2030, respectively.
Officials say removing railway barriers through central Tainan, eliminating level crossings and other road-rail conflicts, will greatly improve road access across the rail corridor and support urban redevelopment around the station area.
