By KHT Staff. Images via the Kaohsiung City Government Tourism Bureau.
KAOHSIUNG — Kaohsiung’s Coffee Festival returns this weekend with an iced-coffee theme and more than 150 vendors spread across Aozihdi Forest Park (凹子底森林公園).
The festival will run from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, according to the city’s official tourism website.
The Tourism Bureau has recruited 70 coffee, bakery and dessert vendors for the event. They will be joined by the Agriculture Bureau’s Shennong Farmers Market (神農市集), which will sell local produce, food and handmade goods.
Participating coffee businesses range from urban cafés to growers and producers from Kaohsiung’s mountainous Indigenous districts, including Tauyuan (桃源), Namasia (那瑪夏) and Maolin (茂林).
Tourism Bureau Director-General Kao Min-lin (高閔琳) said Kaohsiung is unusual in having both an established city café culture and coffee-producing communities within its boundaries.
Featured exhibitors include Café Wake Up, whose roaster has won the World Coffee Roasting Championship, and KEEP Coffee Roastery, which was ranked No. 46 on the 2026 World’s 100 Best Coffee Shops list. The city said KEEP was one of four Taiwanese businesses on the list and the only one from southern Taiwan.
The main stage will also serve as a Coffee Experience Zone, with sessions covering bean selection, roasting, brewing, cupping and tasting. Lectures and hands-on workshops are planned throughout the weekend.
Visitors are encouraged to use public transportation. The park is accessible from Exit 4 of Aozihdi MRT Station or by walking about six minutes from the Heart of Love River Light Rail Station.
