Kenshi Yonezu Concert: Dates, Tickets & Venue (Taipei)

One night at Taipei Dome

Kenshi Yonezu plays Taipei Dome on Sunday, December 27, 2026. In Taiwan he goes by his Japanese name written in characters, 米津玄師, which is the name you’ll see on posters and fan chats.

He started out as the Vocaloid producer “Hachi”, writing tracks like “Matryoshka” and “Sand Planet”. Under his own name he released “Lemon”, one of the biggest Japanese singles of the streaming era. His anime themes include “Peace Sign” for My Hero Academia and “Kick Back” for Chainsaw Man, and they are a large part of why he has so many fans in Taiwan.

The venue and the ride in

Taipei Dome opened in 2023. It is the city’s largest indoor stadium, a pale, ribbed oval that sits on Zhongxiao East Road. A stadium show here means tens of thousands of people under one roof, with seats rising in tiers from the arena floor.

Getting there:

• MRT: Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall Station (Bannan/Blue Line) is the closest stop. Taipei City Hall Station, one stop east, is a slightly longer walk.
• Paying: an EasyCard (悠遊卡) works on the MRT, buses and YouBike, and you can top it up at any station kiosk or convenience store.
• Taxis: taxis back up along Zhongxiao East Road after big events, so most attendees take the train.

Moving with the crowd

A Dome show changes how this part of Xinyi works for the evening. Attendees often walk both ways from the venue, splitting between Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall and Taipei City Hall stations, and the second option tends to move faster after the encore. Station staff in Taipei usually manage big post-show crowds with barriers and staged entry to the platforms. The queues are long but orderly.

Fans usually line up on the left of MRT escalators and leave the right side free for walkers. Eating and drinking are banned past the MRT fare gates, and the fines are real. Fans with merchandise in mind tend to come well before the show. Depending on your seat, binoculars or a small opera glass are a common choice for the upper tiers.

Taiwanese concert audiences are known for cheering loudly between songs and staying quiet during the ballads. Expect a hush for something like “Lemon” and the full room singing along to “Kick Back”.

Around Xinyi before and after

The Dome sits in a walkable part of the city, so it’s easy to fill the hours before and after the show:

• Songshan Cultural and Creative Park is right next to the Dome. It’s a former tobacco factory with exhibitions, design shops and cafés.
• Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall is across the road, with open plazas and a changing of the guard.
• Taipei 101 and the Xinyi department stores are roughly a 20-minute walk south, or one MRT stop from City Hall to Taipei 101/World Trade Center.
• Raohe Night Market is a short taxi ride east, for a late bite after the encore.

Visitors from abroad usually stay in Xinyi or along the Bannan Line, around Zhongxiao Fuxing or Taipei Main Station. That way the trip home is a single train. Taipei in late December is cool and often damp, so a light jacket for the walk out is worth packing.