Between 1796 and 1820, Chinese settlers started to transplant tea trees from Fukien Province in Mainland to the southeastern Hills of Taipei Basin. After that, the tea industry developed gradually to become one of the important industries in Taiwan. In Taipei, Taoyuan, Hsinchu and Miaoli, those mills and platforms under 500 meters above sea level had formed the major tea plant cultivating regions in Taiwan for the suitability of the relief and the weather. However, after 1980's, the tea industry, used to export products mainly, shifted its direction to importation, and then the spatial mode of the tea plant, Gathering chiefly in the hills and basins of northern Taiwan came to alter also. The purpose of the research is to investigate the space movement of tea plant in Taiwan, and the results are as follows, 1.Ater 1980's, the space movement of tea plant had the following modification: (A)Horizontal Movement:The tea plant regions revealed the phenomenon of "Decrease in North and Increase in South." (B)Vertical Movement:It showed the reduction of the tea plant distribution at the lower hill and the enlargement at the higher hill. The tea plant regions of lower hills were mostly situated in the northern Taiwan and the ones of higher hills were mainly placed in the middle and southern parts of Taiwan. The Vertical Movement phenomenon just matched the Horizontal Movement phenomenon. (C)The Change of the Land Utilization:The most land of northern tea plant regions fell into ruin; a few turned to be the industrial, commercial or residential areas; only very limited land changed to grow other agricultural products. However, in middle or southern Taiwan, because of the suitability of the weather, the low benefit of the previous farm products and Taiwanese great affection for the hills tea, those areas 500 meters above sea level, which were originally bamboo grove, orchards, fir trees, dry farmlands, etc., became the tea plantations. 2.The spatial change of tea plant distribution in Taiwan was due to the decreasing tea exportation. So, the northern tea plant regions, where the tea were mainly planted for overseas trade, shrunk because the tea merchants lost the overseas market. In addition, restricted by the poor quality of tea, northern tea met difficulty in winning the internal market. Furthermore, those northern tea plant regions were becoming so popular for they were the right place as the indstrial, commercial, residential and recreational area. On the contrary, the middle and southern tea could fit Taiwanese taste. The tea merchants broadened the internal market. So, middle and southern tea regions has been enlarging little by little. 3.After the spatial modification of the tea plant regions in 1980's, the tea plant regions Displayed three patterns: (A)The golden age of the northern teaplanting had passed; the area of the tea plantations kept on shrinking; the most of teaplanters changed to be the part-time farmers. (B)The prosperity of the tea industry in the middle and southern Taiwan encouraged the tea garden expanding continually toward the higher hills. The teaplanting not only propered the economic condition in the hill country but also slowed down the serious outgoing population problem. (C)In order to save the declining tea industry in northern Taiwan, the tourist tea garden became very popular and then the tea industry was aftered by combining the primary industry with the tertiary industry, a kind of recreational agricultural style.