The Walden Yilan City

With the expression of in-depth humanistic culture, The Walden is here to provide our honored guests with a warm and hospitable accommodation service. From the beginning of your room reservation, we will welcome you like our own family member.

Beyond the cultural and language barrier, our honored guests could immerse themselves in a peaceful and wonderful natural atmosphere, completely away from the hustle and bustle of the modern city.

The quiet, free, beautiful lake sceneries depicted in the “Life in the Woods” as written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau is the exact unique experience. The Walden wishes to provide its visitors.

Whether you want to spend some time with your family and friends away from the city or capture the beautiful sceneries of KAMALAN hometown with a pencil,sketch board, camera or a bicycle ride, the Walden has everything for everyone.

Being the birthplace to both beautiful sceneries and humanistic culture, the beautiful Lanyang Plain is a place for you to spend your vacation with family and friends. Here at the Walden, travel itinerary planning and tour consultation service are provided to enrich your personal journey.

In addition, the hotel also offers a variety of services such as limousine transportation, business conference room, gymnasium, art collection area and other facilities to meet the needs of all travelers.

Walden Family Suite
Located on the fifth floor, the Walden Family Suite has 20 square feet of wide space, including a small garden with elegant charm and a private patio.

When the sun is shining on the floor-to-ceiling windows, the curtains will be lifted and the conversation with the nature can be started. Friends or family can brew a pot of tea, or sit or lie to enjoy the free and precious holiday time.

Hugo Double Suite
Looking out of the bright window, you can feel the soft breeze blowing through the grille and the floor-to-ceiling window and observe the beautiful island, plain, sky, and ocean.

With low-key and elegant design, an open living room and bathroom are established in the room with a total area of 14 pyeong. With low-key and elegant design, a charming night view and a romantic aesthetic atmosphere is created to provide exhausted travelers with the perfect physical and mental care.

Roland Double Room
Leaning against the window, you can view the most charming and picturesque island, plain, sky, and ocean, as if we’re listening to the innermost secret of Guishan Island from afar. With charming night view and splendid sunrise, our traveler can enjoy the best relaxation from their vacation.

Rowling Western Restaurant
The Walden provides breakfast, lunch, and dinner on a regular basis. Non-toxic local fruits and vegetables are selected as main ingredients for our Chinese and Western style cuisine, allowing you to taste the most diversified exotic flavor.

Goethe Café
Goethe Cafe is decorated with a minimalist and fashionable style, further creating the most comfortable dining space suitable for sisterhood to come and enjoy the beautiful afternoon tea time.

Shakespeare Beer Bar
Shakespeare bear bar is a late-night beer bar specifically designed for exhausted travelers to share their meals and enjoy their drinks with friends. Facility Location: on the third floor of the Walden.

Multifunctional Conference Room
The Walden provides special spaces for small and medium sized conference, lecture, or seminar. Accommodating 40 to 100 people, the space can be further transformed into high-class conference room depending on different customer demands.

Plato Gymnasium
With a wide variety of fitness equipment and health course at the Walden, travelers can enjoy sports and music while shedding their sweat and release their bodies and minds.

Book Collection
By taking book collection and artwork as our main feature, rich and diverse books are provided to create the thick literati atmosphere at the Walden.

Boutique Selling Area
Small store areas are established here at the Walden to provide you with diversified boutiques, allowing you to experience a modern and exquisite journey.

Wizard of Oz (Parent-Child Center)
Children’s recreational facilities and book reading zone are provided in the Wizard of Oz for families to spend a wonderful time together at the Walden.

Jimmy Park 
The Jimmy Square used to be an old railway staff dormitory; it was later transformed into the transit center of long-haul buses. As Yilan happens to be the hometown of the famous illustrator, with the theme of “in memory of the transient scenery”, he created the first square in Taiwan featuring his own illustrations, in Yilan. The square still maintains the original historic buildings and old trees.

Here, you will see the male and female main characters from Turn Left, Turn Right (A Chance of Sunshine) departing hastily in opposite directions. Or you can see the little boy and girl from The Starry Starry Night waiting together for the bus that will never come.

Or you can see the suitcase that holds the traveler’s memories from Sound of Colors. All the pieces of the installation art displayed at the Jimmy Square create limitless room for imagination and touch people’s hearts.

The Happy Station that takes only five minutes to arrive at, no longer leaves the impression of hastiness. Visitors who travel here can now slow down and stop for a while to appreciate the beautiful scenery in the surroundings and imprint Yilan, the place that makes you smile, in their mind.

National Center for Traditional Arts
Walking into the park at the Center for Traditional Arts makes you feel like falling into a time tunnel. The streets decorated with red walls and black tiles are blended with the architectural styles of the old streets everywhere in Taiwan.

All sorts of special stores, such as workshops and early Taiwanese variety stores, stand along the streets. Here, you may see things that trigger the fun memories of your childhood, such as dough figurine sculptures, sugar onion, traditional toys, glove puppetry, etc.

When you feel tired after shopping, you can bring your children to the parent and child area to play and, or have some Taiwanese specialty food to replenish the lost energy.

Or you can go to the performance hall and take a seat to enjoy the troupe’s performance; you will be able to completely bask in the performance as you listen to the sonorous and delicate singing as this slowly vanishing art is a part of our cultural heritage.

In addition, you can try many interesting activities, such as hand dyeing fabric, handmade woodcraft, and making oil-paper umbrellas. The center not only allows visitors to eat and play at the same time, but hopes to blend art into life through understanding the beauty of traditional art with the help of these handmade activities, splendid performances, and traditional architecture.

Luodong Sports Park
The waterscape in the Park is quite magnificent. At the background of Langyang River, the 1 km long miniature of the Lanyang River system is built. There is also a great view in the Park, Bald Cypress Forest, which is a scenic spot not to be missed when visiting Luodong.

Every time in autumn and winter, the Bald Cypress leaves turn from green to red. The leaves fall on the ground and dye the Luodong Sports Park red. When tourists walk into the forest on the stone steps, they will feel like walking into a secret wonderland and become absorbed in such a beautiful scene.

In addition to a uniquely bountiful natural landscape in the Park, there are various facilities: swimming pool, football field, track and field stadium, tennis court, circle plaza, and others at the Park. When you find yourself eating too much and feel too full, why not come to the Luodong Sports Park, take a relaxing walk and watch the water dance show at every hour sharp!

Dongshan River Water Park
Dongshan River Water Park is situated in Wujie Township, Yilan County. The Park has the Ecological Conservation Area, Water Activities Area, Leisure Activities Area, Water Bus, and Outdoor Theater.

The Park is the best equipped outdoor water park in Yilan. Among all, the Water Activities Area and Dongshan River Trip are the most attractive. Visitors can even take the boat from the water park to travel to the Center for Traditional Arts.

Dongshan River Water Park often holds big-scale events known to the whole world. Every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, fun and magnificent dragon boat racing will be held, together with the International Children’s Folklore & Folkgame Festival, where people of all ages can be fully entertained.

Of all the events, the International Children’s Folklore & Folkgame Festival is the most representative one that attracts hordes of visitors to join and enjoy some coolness during the scorching hot summer days.

Apart from playing with water, the bike lane next to Dongshan River also provides a pretty nice recreation option. The bike lane along the way is smooth and you can even see the red Lizejian Bridge, whose two sides are shaded by trees, or admire the charming scenery alongside Dongshan River.

Yilan Riverside Park

To date, having undergone planning, the track and field, basketball court and baseball field alongside the Yilan River have been renovated or constructed; greens and plants have also been added to the river bank and nearby landscape, turning it into a riverside park perfect for a festive celebration or a relaxing bike ride on weekdays or holidays.

Along the embankment, the Yilan River Bike Path measures a total length of about 15 km. Starting from the Riverside Park, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Yilan River all the way, then pass by the Saigou Monument and other attractions, before arriving at the Yuanshan Park, the end of the path, to enjoy a carefree and easy-going time.

With a carpet of boundless, thriving green grassland, Riverside Park is not only a popular sports venue for local people, but also a visitors’ favorite to sweep away all the troubles and fatigue.

Website: www.waldenhotels.com

Rooms: 48

Price: from 309 EUR per night