Reviews of Taiwan Railway e-booking

List of user reviews and ratings for Taiwan Railway e-booking

Total ratings

1.98 (Rating count: 5,831)

Review summary

Pros
  • Ability to look up routes and book tickets easily
  • Includes e-ticket functionality
  • Transfer function for TRA is useful
  • Good English translation is available
Cons
  • Poor design and user interface
  • Issues with creating accounts for foreigners
  • Tickets disappear or cannot be retrieved
  • Frequent errors when querying arrival times
  • Account suspensions without explanation
Most mentioned
  • Difficulties with account creation for international users
  • Poor user interface and design
  • Inability to retrieve tickets or show them properly
  • Issues with the app getting stuck without internet connection
  • Frustrating experience for foreigners due to ID requirements
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User reviews

Recent rating average: 2.00
All time rating average: 1.98
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1 star
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Date Author Rating Comment
2025-01-27
Emil
The app forgot my bookings! How to collect my tickets now...
2025-01-25
Isabel M
I used TWRail app to check across all public transportation for planning and purchased tickets that are saved in my phone app. Worked perfectly! It had some learning curve due to how substation and main station were categorized. The stations are ordered in the order of arrival so clicking through surrounding stations helped to find the exact substation name.
2025-01-01
Zsigmond Pölcz
I can't collect my tickets. Query failed. Idiocractic system, why can't I directly download my ticket from the tra website.
2024-12-27
Sam Capy
Does exactly what it says on the tin, and does it well. Look up routes, times, book tickets, and scan tickets all from this app with no hassle.
2024-11-21
Kris Wynn
The app is poorly designed. Really need to spend more budget on app developments. Updated the app and now my account got suspended for a month with no obvious reason. No explanation was given nor was any warning about what can cause an account suspension.
2024-09-18
Nhàn Phạm
Very bad for international people, cannot create account, booked the based on ARC ID for ticket holder but when retrieve ticket following the ARC ID - "no result" even call service team also not found. My money just gone :)
2024-08-01
timothy seekings
Disappointed as it doesn't seem to allow me to register an account with my ARC or Passport. An other furstrating experience with the new "smart" and appified world. Another deposit on the wasted time bank.
2024-06-26
horzac
What was the point of taking a day off and going to each of my banks, the local registry office, various other ministries to update my old APRC # just so this garbage app can refuse to accept the new one? Taiwan, do better.
2023-12-29
Daniel Lee
Worked great. Put in ARC number. Used American credit card to book. UI isn't great but it worked. Only issue is not sure how multi ticket purchase work for mobile pick up. *Lol spoke too soon. Pulled up app at train station to redeem ticket but booked ticket no longer showed. Was able to get ticket still since I had my ID at the ticket desk. Thank goodness.
2023-10-17
Ron Heinsman
Even after updating to the newest APRC number (a Taiwan permanent residence certificate number), a foreigner without a Taiwan citizen ID number cannot create an account using this app.
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