Charming Wei Chuan Dragons Stadium: Is The Stadium Worth Visiting?

If you’re a baseball fan and visiting Taipei during the CPBL season (Chinese Professional Baseball League), you have a couple of choices gto choose from in Taipei. There’s the Fubon Guardians, which I wrote about earlier, and there’s the Wei Chuan Dragons.

The Wei Chuan Dragons

The Dragons have an interesting history. They were a founding team, one of the original teams that started the CPBL. They had great success in the 90’s, winning the league in 1990, 1997, 1998, 1999. After the 1999 season it was announced the Wei Chuan Food Corporation, which owned the team, was disbanding it. It seems unprecedented and cruel to the fans, to disband a team after a season ending in a championship but that’s exactly what happened.

Fast forward 20 years: The team gets re-established in 2019 and plays as a minor league team in 2020 before rejoining the CPBL for the 2021 season. In 2023 the Dragons won the championship. They were back to their winning ways.

The Stadium

Out of all three baseball stadiums that I watched a game at, the Taipei Tianmu Baseball Stadium was by far the best. It has a large open concourse area with everything decked out in Wei Chaun Dragons signage and displays. The team store is located right next to the ticket booth and was popping when I went to it. People were definitely buying a bunch Wei Chuan Dragons apparel, hats, and other merchandise.

Tickets were easy to purchase, I just walked right up to the ticket booth on gameday and got a ticket down the first base line for (500 NTD, $15.56 USD).

Once you walk into the stadium, there’s another concourse area with a bunch of food tents. There’s also additional food stalls inside the stadium. There’s a variety of food and snacks in general at this stadium to munch on while enjoying a Wei Chuan Dragons game.

I opted for some sweet potato balls (80 NTD, $2.49 USD) and a cup of fries with honey mustard sauce drizzled over them (135 NTD, $4.20 USD) . Of course if you wanted to, you could bring in outside food and drinks as well with no issues which also provides further food and drink options!

Walking around the stadium reminded me of a tiny Major League Baseball stadium. There’s a lot of banners, flags, lights hanging, and player portraits as well as portraits of the Wei Chuan Dragons cheerleaders hanging on the stadium pillars. It’s fun little atmosphere and definitely stood out amongst the stadiums that I visted while in Taiwan.

It’s a well cared for field and looks fantastic. With the stadium only seating about 10,500 people, it’s quite initmate as well. As with every game in the CPBL, a Wei Chuan Dragons game is a boisterous affair. Despite the rainy weather during the game I went to the cheers, songs, chants, were very much present.

Even though there were a lot of fans that had retreated to the inside of the stadium as the weather worsened, the crowd still watching the gam outside was very loud and enthusiastic. It really does make a big difference to the atmosphere and the game a lot more fun and entertaining.

Is Taipei Tianmu Baseball Stadium Worth Visiting?

If you’re a baseball fan and only have time to watch one game and one team while in Taipei then a Wei Chuan Dragons at Taipei Tianmu Baseball Stadium is the team and stadium to visit. No offense to the Fubon Guardians, but the Taipei Tianmu Baseball Stadium is certainly superior and offers a much better gameday experience. There’s more food options, the team store is larger, and the team (the year I went) was better. It’s an overall fun experience and is definitely worth catching a game at!