HSR Chiayi Taibao station is on the high-speed line between Taipei 1:30 hours, $1080 and Kaohsiung. The HSR station is over 15 km out of town, but linked to the city by the Chiayi BRT system.
Chiayi is also served by mainline TRA trains and the scenic narrow-gauge Alishan Forest Railway to Alishan, which both leave from the same station, but have separate ticketing counters. Long-distance buses leave from the terminal immediately outside the station, but local buses notably those to nearby hot spring town Guanzihling use the Zhongshan Rd bus terminal a few hundred meters down the street.
