Urayama SKY Links a Garden, Vegetarian Dining and Art Above Taipei

Urayama SKY opened on October14 across floors11 and12 of the National Taiwan Science Education Center, bringing together a sky garden, Japanese-style vegetarian food and two floors of exhibitions. For a future visit, note that it closes Mondays and Tuesdays; Wednesday–Sunday hours are 11am–8pm, with last orders at7pm. Garden, dining and art form the core experience. Admission to the floor12 exhibition follows meeting the restaurant’s minimum spend, rather than being an unrestricted free museum exhibition.

Check floors and minimum spending before planning a viewpoint visit

The address is No.189 Shishang Road, Shilin District, Taipei, with the restaurant on floor11. Its official Eatsy booking notice specifies a minimum spend of NT$350 per person, exempting children aged10 or younger, and a90-minute dining period. Parties of six or more, private-room needs and special buyouts should contact the venue through its social account. Floor12 exhibition admission requires meeting the restaurant minimum, so factor dining into the plan. Special opening-hour changes are announced ahead on official Instagram.

The floor11 outdoor terrace combines pines, composite decking and the building’s framing of city, river and mountain views. 一攬芳華 designed the exterior and worked with 本木 on the deck, while 文域設計 participated in interior planning. Publicity photographs place large facade surfaces, glass balustrades and tree canopies together. The landscape therefore offers more than one distant panorama: staying on the terrace and moving along the walkway also reveal how architectural scale redirects the view.

Garden to table, with indoor planting conditions in focus

Indoor landscaping continues the nature theme under different conditions. Some areas lack natural sunlight, addressed through plant selection, artificial lighting and spatial planning. Wooden bases and antiques sit among the greenery, making plants part of the viewing route. Japanese-style vegetarian cooking uses seasonal Taiwanese ingredients, alongside a collaboration with a Hokkaido taiyaki workshop. These choices take gardens and seasonality from visuals to the table, beyond greenery as a window backdrop.

The opening exhibition began on October8, distinct from the venue’s October14 opening. Floor12 partners with Whimsy Works Gallery to show Iichiro Tsukamoto, Dillon Froelich and Elijah Anderson until December6. Painting and three-dimensional work share the level. Publicity imagery shows red linear painting, irregular wall-mounted colour forms and small suspended objects, offering comparisons between image, shape and space.

Materials on floor11, animated artworks on floor12

Floor11’s 流—Lab of Material, jointly curated by 地衣荒物 and 裏山古物, runs until December13. It places contemporary craft beside antique furniture, spanning paper lamps, paper sculpture, metal, ceramics, lacquer, wood and textiles. The focus is how making and use leave material texture and a sense of time. Its closing date differs from the contemporary-art exhibition above. Moving between the floors allows materials, objects and images to be considered in relation to one another.

On floor12, Ura [xiii] has 目子拾参 turn the three artists’ works into animation, extended through mirrors and moving visuals. Its name points to an imagined thirteenth level, extending the encounter between image and room. Exhibition walls and craft details lead to surrounding imagery and back to the city-view walkway: a concrete route connecting different ways of looking in the new venue.