The road that makes Alishan possible
County Road 18, a bus that runs three times a day, and the reason farms sit where they do.
One road, everything on it
Almost every estate above 1,000 metres on this mountain is within twenty minutes of the same road. Fertiliser, seedlings, pickers, and finished bags all travel it.
That single dependency explains a lot: why farms cluster, why a landslide closes the season, and why a 15-minute taxi costs what it does.
The bus
Bus 7322 runs from Chiayi to Shizhuo three times a day that matter, and the last one leaves before the afternoon fog settles in.
Miss it and the options are a NT$1,200 taxi or a night in the village. Both have happened to people who then wrote very honest reviews.
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