How walkable is Tianmu?
By Oscar Higson-SpenceUpdated
Tianmu has a walkability score of 97 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car. It is the most walkable of 1 neighbourhoods ranked in Taipei, which scores 90 as a whole.
What's within walking distance
2,304 shops, restaurants, parks and other everyday places are mapped within a 30 minute walk of the centre of Tianmu. The nearest grocery is Ten Square Coffee, about a minute away on foot. Every category earns full or nearly full points.
- Mia C’bon1 min
- 全聯天母天玉店1 min
- 小確幸1 min
- 愛幸福1 min
- 天母May名牌坊1 min
- 天母圓環跳蚤巿場1 min
- 三玉號 野草茶1 min
- 吉那圈咖啡-天母店1 min
- 中國信託3 min
- 陽信銀行3 min
- 東和公園6 min
- 天和公園6 min
- 天母日橋小學4 min
- 天母國小排球社5 min
- 敦煌書局4 min
- 天母二手書店5 min
- 紫園Amy Liang Bonsai Museum4 min
- 遊戲愛樂園-天母店7 min
Measured from the mapped centre of Tianmu at 25.1187, 121.5300. Walking times assume 80 m per minute along an estimated street route.
Street layout
Within 800 m of the centre there are about 143 street intersections per km², and blocks average 77 m long. That is a well-connected street grid, so the score is not reduced.
Walkability across Tianmu
- 90+
- 70–89
- 50–69
- 25–49
- 0–24
Each hexagon is the score at a point across the 1 km around the centre of Tianmu. Rings mark 500 m and 1 km from the centre. Gaps are water or land without streets.
Questions about walking in Tianmu
Is Tianmu walkable?
Yes. Tianmu in Taipei has a walkability score of 97 out of 100 across the 1 km around its centre, which makes it a Walker's Paradise, where daily errands do not require a car.
Is Tianmu more walkable than the rest of Taipei?
Tianmu is more walkable than Taipei as a whole: it scores 97, against 90 for the 5 km around Taipei's centre. It ranks 1st of the 1 Taipei neighbourhoods on How Walkable.
How is the walkability score of Tianmu calculated?
The score counts groceries, restaurants, shops, cafés, banks, parks, schools, libraries and cultural venues within a 30 minute walk, gives nearer places more weight, and deducts up to 20% where streets are sparse or blocks are long. For Tianmu it is the average of 61 points spread evenly across the 1 km around its mapped centre, leaving out water and land without streets, using open map data from Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap.
Scores follow a published walkability method, explained in the methodology. Neighbourhood position from Overture Maps, name from Wikidata.