Charlie Puth Live in Taipei: Dates, Tickets & Venue (Taipei)

One night on Nanjing East Road

Charlie Puth plays Taipei Arena on October 20, 2026. The arena is a big grey box set back from Nanjing East Road Section 4, with a wide plaza out front. That plaza is where concert crowds gather, swap photos and wait for the doors.

Taipeiers call the building Xiao Ju Dan (小巨蛋), “the little giant egg”. The name is a bit misleading, because the roof is flat and angular rather than domed. The arena opened in 2005 on the site of the old Taipei Municipal Baseball Stadium. Since then it has become the city’s standard stop for international pop tours.

Why this show draws a crowd

Puth’s catalogue is unusually wide for a single artist. A lot of the audience will know him first from “See You Again”, the Wiz Khalifa collaboration. Others came in through his own singles:

• “We Don’t Talk Anymore”
• “Attention”
• “One Call Away”
• “How Long”
• “Light Switch”

He is also known for perfect pitch and for building songs in real time on social media. That reputation as a producer and arranger is part of what fans come to see live. This guide makes no claim about the setlist, the support act or start times, because none of those come from the facts behind this page.

The Little Egg, inside and out

Taipei Arena holds roughly 15,000 people in a concert setup. Seating rises in steep tiers on all sides of the main floor. Most upper seats still give you a clear line to the stage, which beats the view from the back of a stadium.

The building does more than concerts. It houses an Olympic-size ice rink, Taipei Arena Ice Land, alongside the main hall. Food and drink outlets line the ground level around the edge. Inside the bowl, concourse corridors loop around the seating, and each block’s entrance is marked with its section letter and number. Your ticket sends you to one of those.

Getting to Taipei Arena

The MRT is how most of the crowd travels. Taipei Arena Station sits on the green Songshan–Xindian Line, and the exit for the arena puts you on the plaza within a minute or two of walking.

• From Taipei Main Station: take the blue Bannan Line east to Ximen or Zhongxiao Xinsheng and change to the green line. Or ride the red line north to Zhongshan and change there.
• From Songshan Airport: take the brown Wenhu Line two stops south to Nanjing Fuxing, then one stop east on the green line.
• On foot: the arena is a pleasant walk from the Nanjing Fuxing office district and from the Minsheng Community area to the north.

Taxis and Uber both work in Taipei. On concert nights, though, Nanjing East Road traffic slows badly as the show lets out.

Moving with the Xiao Ju Dan crowd

Concert nights at the arena follow a routine that regular gig-goers know well.

• Pay for transit with an EasyCard. Most people tap in with this stored-value card, which also works at 7-Eleven and FamilyMart. Topping it up beforehand saves a wait at the machines when 15,000 people head underground together.
• Keep food and drink out of the MRT. Eating, drinking and chewing gum are banned past the station fare gates, and fines are enforced. Fans usually finish their bubble tea on the plaza.
• Queue the Taipei way. Lines for the merch stand, toilets and train platforms form neatly. Staff often hold signs or batons to show where they end. Cutting in is noticed.
• Plan your exit. At the end of the night, many fans walk one stop east to Nanjing Sanmin or west to Nanjing Fuxing, skipping the crush at Taipei Arena Station.
• Lightsticks and signs are a normal part of Taiwanese concert culture. Phone flashlights going up together during ballads are close to a ritual.

Ticketing for a show like this runs through the promoter and its ticketing partner, not the arena box office. Seat maps and entry rules come from them.

Before and after: eating around Songshan

Fans tend to eat early nearby or late further east. The Breeze Nanjing mall sits a short walk from the arena, with a food court and sit-down restaurants. Side streets off Nanjing East Road have the usual Taipei mix: noodle shops, bento counters and convenience stores. Many fans just grab rice balls and tea before doors.

For a late meal, Raohe Street Night Market is two MRT stops east at Songshan Station, at the end of the green line. Its single long lane runs beside Ciyou Temple. Black pepper buns (hu jiao bing), baked against the walls of clay ovens, are the stall the market is known for. Stalls trade late into the night, which suits a post-concert crowd.

Taipei in late October

October is one of Taipei’s easier months. The worst summer heat has passed, though days are often warm and humid, and a light layer helps against the air-conditioning inside the arena. Typhoon season can still reach into October. When a storm hits, Taipei’s city government sometimes declares a typhoon day, and that affects transport and events across the city.

Visitors in town for a few days usually stay around Zhongshan, Ximending or Xinyi. All three link to the arena by MRT in under half an hour. Taipei 101 and the Xinyi shopping district are a short taxi ride south. Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, a former tobacco factory turned design and exhibition space, makes an easy daytime stop on the same side of the city.