 The “ National Geographic ” website chose travel by high speed rail in western Taiwan as the “ Best Winter Trip 2013 ”. The first film to feature THSR prominently was the 2007 Taiwanese movie Summer's Tail, directed by Cheng Wen-Tang. A group of teenagers, one of whom is the son of a Japanese engineer working on the high-speed railway, hang out at a vacant lot under the elevated tracks of THSR in Liuying, Tainan. In Leg 10 of Season 12 of the internationally aired reality television game show The Amazing Race, which was watched by 11.65 million Americans, competing teams travelled from Taipei to Taichung and back on the THSR.
