Forty-five kilometers away from Hualien and twenty kilometers from Taroko Gorge, Tien Hsiang originally was called "Taibito," the name of a branch of the Taiya tribe.
天祥距花蓮市四十五公里，距太魯閣峽口二十公里，舊名叫「太比多」，是泰雅族山胞的一個大部落。