Playing basketball with local youths and visiting Taipei's skyscraper, Building 101, are on the agenda of his three-day tour which aims to enhance basketball exchanges across the strait.
The "small giant" will also go to Hsinchu where he is to attend a roundtable meeting on reviving primary training of the sport among teenagers.
This will be the third time that Yao visits the island, and the first since joining the Rockets.
Yao will return to the national team in Beijing to take part in a charity game on September 14 against a special NBA star team led by Phoenix Suns talisman Steve Nash.
