Fenqihu between trains
The stop that makes the forest railway worth taking, and what happens when the train leaves.
Ninety minutes
The train stops for long enough to eat a bento and walk the old street twice. Then it leaves, and the town goes back to being a town.
The station is at 1,400 metres; the coffee farms are lower, on the slopes you passed an hour earlier.
The forest railway is slow on purpose. So is everything worth seeing on this mountain.
Why stop at all
Because the railway is the only way to see the mountain's vertical logic: tea at the top, bamboo below it, coffee on the warm shoulders.
It is also the only transport on the island where a delay is the point.
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