Hualien City · Former sound-culture bookstore · closed
Past exhibitionTing Bookstore
Closed since December 1, 2025. A record of the sound-culture bookstore inside Hualien Port Broadcasting Station 1944.
Closed since December 1, 2025
Ting Bookstore at Hualien Port Broadcasting Station 1944
Venue photograph
Historical image: Pacific Sound Hub / Ting Bookstore. Editorial use.
Editorial useView source ↗
Its shelves and long table once shared a home with exhibitions, coffee and sound work.
Correction · September 9, 2026
Thank you to the reader who caught our outdated recommendation. The venue announced that Ting Bookstore, the café and Ear Nest closed on December 1, 2025; exhibitions remained open. We've corrected this page and kept the bookstore's words and pictures as a record. Please don't use the original article to plan a book-buying trip.
The former bookstore
Pine branches and daylight cross the bookstore window. Behind the reflections are a wooden room, a long table laid with open books, and a wall of shelves.
Ting Bookstore began with sound. Its shelves concentrated on music, sound engineering, and theory. New books were for sale; selected used books stayed in the room for visitors to read.
The bookstore occupied part of Hualien Port Broadcasting Station 1944. The same address held Pacific Sound Hub's permanent Tracing Back sound exhibition, 1944 Café, a sound workspace called Ear Nest, and a recording room available by reservation. Books sat beside rooms where sound was exhibited, discussed, and recorded.
Ting Bookstore also hosted occasional reading groups and workshops. Visitors could browse the shelves, sit with one of the reading copies, and buy a book to take home.
The former bookstore is close to Pine Garden, above central Hualien. In the photograph, the long table leaves room to stop rather than pass quickly along the shelves.
Former location
聽書店 / Ting Bookstore
Inside Hualien Port Broadcasting Station 1944
No. 96, Songyuan Street, Hualien City, Hualien County
Closed since December 1, 2025. This page records the former bookstore; the exhibition venue is separate.
Open directions from Hualien Station ↗
Get there
Public transport
This map marks the former bookstore, which is closed. For the broadcasting-station exhibitions, allow about ten minutes by taxi from Hualien Station, or a walk of roughly 2.5 kilometres and 37 minutes.
Sources
- Broadcasting Station: operating changes ↗ — Ting Bookstore, cafe and Ear Nest closure from December 1, 2025
- Pacific Sound Hub — Ting Bookstore ↗ — Historical bookstore selection, activities and photograph; former hours no longer apply
- Pacific Sound Hub — venue introduction ↗ — The permanent Tracing Back exhibition, 1944 Café, the Ear Nest sound workspace, and the reservable recording room