TaitungPlay Recommendations

193 Café on Luo-Yang Street in Taitung City is a pet-friendly café set inside a two-storey white old house. Cats roam freely indoors and out, and well-behaved dogs on leads are welcome too. The menu runs to coffee, waffles, pasta, fried snacks and desserts, with Wi-Fi, power outlets and an outdoor courtyard sized for travellers needing to recharge — devices or themselves — alongside their pets. The shop actively supports adopt-don't-shop, so the regular crowd of rescued cats adds to its reputation as downtown Taitung's go-to cat and pet-meet spot.

Mese Coffee (Tsao-Yueh Café) in downtown Taitung leans on house-roasted specialty pour-over and a pared-back space. The room is pet-friendly — resident cats and visiting dogs share the floor — making it easy to settle in with a furry companion. Beans skew light-to-medium roast, joined by iced lattes, sparklers and desserts; layering is the point and prices stay friendly. The shop sits near the Tian-Hou Temple, a ten-minute walk from the train station, with limited parking but room for a few scooters. A Lonely Planet pick for one of Taiwan's twenty-five best cafés, it is a Taitung coffee stop worth going out of the way for.

Cappuccino Homestay in Taitung City is an easy walk from Taitung train station — a clean, simple design with five room types, all with en-suite bathroom, balcony, air-con, free Wi-Fi and a hairdryer as standard. The property leans into pet-friendliness: pets come at no cleaning fee, and the add-ons — bike and scooter rentals, free coffee, and washer-dryer access — make travelling with furry companions simple. National Travel Card, long-stay discounts and an overall family-and-pet-friendly posture make this a high-value Taitung base.

Ga-Ga-Wu-Lai-Lai sits on the Wu-Shi-Bi coast in Chang-Bin Township, Taitung — a blue-and-white cottage perched just behind Wu-Shi-Bi Beach, with knockout sea views and a wide outdoor terrace. The menu runs to coffee, signature smoothies and assorted desserts, the mood is hushed, and well-behaved pets are welcome — a pet-friendly seaside café tuned for healing. Visitors slow their pace, tune into the surf and slip into the unhurried ease of Taiwan's east coast.

Tai-Ma-Li Creative Café in Taitung City started life as a Japanese-era police dorm and now lives on as a timber-and-glass heritage house with broad floor-to-ceiling windows — a nostalgic, design-forward setting. A resident cat, pet-friendly seating and a small tatami booth cover families, friend groups and travellers with a taste for Japanese-era architecture. Pour-over coffee, rich sugar-apple (shijia) drinks, lattes and light meals fill the day, then the room flips to a bar in the evening — a downtown Taitung stop that works for photo stops and slow unwinds alike.

Xiao-Yu-Er-De-Jia (Little Fish's Home) sits on the Shan-Yuan coast in Bei-Nan Township, Taitung, beside the Fu-Shan conservation area on Highway 11 — a sea-view café-and-homestay built around a two-storey white wooden house. A wide ocean-view terrace, lawn, swing, sandpit and boardwalk lead straight to the beach, sized for families and pets together. The menu leans light — coffee, abai (Paiwan millet dumplings), Wen-Shan green tea, cheesecake and fried chicken wings — with a low-spend of just NT$50. Lodging covers doubles, an independent hot-spring room and a one-night-three-meal package from about NT$1,680, fully pet-friendly. A healing bolt-hole for sea views, slow afternoon teas and travel with four-legged companions.