36 Sights in Taichung, Taiwan (with Map and Images)

The National Taichung Theater is an opera house in the Taichung's 7th Redevelopment Zone in the Xitun District of Taichung, Taiwan. The estimated area of the structure is 57,685 square meters (620,920 sq ft). It was designed by Japanese architect Toyo Ito in collaboration with Cecil Balmond at Arup AGU. It was contracted on 11 November 2009 with construction planned for 45 months. The venue had a partial opening on 23 November 2014. It was officially opened in 2016.

Wikipedia: National Taichung Theater (EN)

Fengjia Night Market or Feng Chia Night Market, also called Fengjia Shopping Town, is a night market in Xitun District, Taichung, Taiwan. The market is located next to Feng Chia University. It was claimed to be the largest night market in Taiwan.

Wikipedia: Fengjia Night Market (EN)

Tunghai University is a private university in Taiwan, established in 1955. It was founded by the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia (UBCHEA). It is located in Xitun District, Taichung, Taiwan. The university is known for its liberal arts education.

Wikipedia: Tunghai University (EN)

Qiuhonggu Ecological Park, also known as Qiuhonggu Square and Qiuhonggu Landscape Ecological Park, commonly known as Qiuhonggu, is a large-scale detention pond park located in the seventh phase of the rezoning area of Xitun District, Taichung City, Taiwan, adjacent to Taiwan Avenue, Chaofu Road, Municipal North 7th Road and Henan Road, covering an area of 30,000 square meters.

Wikipedia: 秋紅谷廣場 (ZH)

The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts is a museum in West District, Taichung, Taiwan. NTMoFA was established in 1988 and is the first and the only national-grade fine arts museum in Taiwan. The major collections are works by Taiwanese artists, covering modern and contemporary Taiwanese arts. The museum covers 102,000 square meters, including the Public Outdoor Sculpture park, making it one of the largest museums in Asia.

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Xueshan or Sekuwan is a mountain in the Heping District of Taichung, Taiwan. It is the 2nd-highest mountain in Taiwan and in East Asia, at 3,886 m (12,749 ft) above sea level. It is located in the Shei-Pa National Park and is visible in good weather from hills near Taiwan's capital Taipei.

Wikipedia: Xueshan (EN)

Baojue Temple, referred to as Baojue Temple, is located in Taichung City, Taiwan North District Jinlong Li Linji Buddhist Temple, founded in 1928, the mountain number Zhengfa Mountain, the Japanese era of the mountain number "Eagle Ping Mountain", the founder of the mountain is the East China Sea Yicheng Zen Master, the first presiding Miao Zen Master, Taiwan and Japan World War II soldiers and bereaved families will come here to worship, but also for Japanese tourists to travel places.

Wikipedia: 寶覺禪寺 (ZH)

Wufu Linmen Sacred Tree, located in Taichung City, Taiwan, Shigang District, Longxing Wanxian Street, a group of trees, is regarded as a sacred tree by the locals, originally centered on the camphor tree, plus the surrounding banyan tree, acacia tree, nan tree, Pu tree five kinds of trees.

Wikipedia: 五福臨門神木 (ZH)

Fengyuan Tzu Chi Palace, commonly known as Fengyuan Mazu Temple, is a Mazu temple in Fengyuan District, Taichung City, Taiwan, which was built during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. Next to it is the Fengyuan Temple East Night Market.

Wikipedia: 豐原慈濟宮 (ZH)

The martial arts arena of Taichung Criminal Affairs Institute is the only martial arts gym-style building in Taichung City during the Japanese occupation period in Taiwan, which was built in 1937 and was originally used by the prison officers of the Taichung Criminal Affairs Institute (now Taichung Prison) to practice martial arts.

Wikipedia: 臺中刑務所演武場 (ZH)

Taichung Shrine is a shrine located in Taichung City during the Japanese occupation of Taiwan. The first shrine was built in 1911 in 84 of Shintakamachi, Taichung City, north of the North Gate Tower of Taichung Park. The second-generation shrine was built in 1937 at 141 Bangu in Xingaocho, Taichung City, and in 1942 it was upgraded to a national currency shrine, and the old Taichung Shrine in the original Taichung Park was demolished. After the upgrade, Taichung Shrine has three township shrines, Changhua Shrine, Shimizu Shrine, and Yuanlin Shrine, and eight unqualified shrines.

Wikipedia: 臺中神社 (ZH)

Zhongshan Hall, located in North District, Taichung City, Taiwan, covers an area of 33,564.94 square meters, with a built-up floor of 16,607.5 square meters, including two underground floors and three floors above ground, with a total of 1,557 seats (including 12 barrier-free audience seats and 12 accompanying seats) in the upper and lower floors, making it the most functional indoor theater in central Taiwan. It is close to Zhongzheng Park, North District National Sports Center, China Medical University, Taichung Zhongyou Department Store and No. 1 Middle School business district.

Wikipedia: 中山堂 (台中市) (ZH), Website

Taichung City God Temple, located in the South District of Taichung City, Taiwan, is the City God Temple, the capital of Taiwan after the establishment of Taiwan Province during the Qing Dynasty, and the City God is named "Welling Gong".

Wikipedia: 台中市城隍廟 (ZH)

The Dajia Jenn Lann Temple, also known as the Zhenlan or Mazu Temple, is a temple dedicated to the Chinese Goddess Mazu, the Goddess of Sea and Patron Deity of fishermen, sailors and any occupations related to sea/ocean. The temple is located in the Dajia District of Taichung, Taiwan. It is known for being the start of the Dajia Mazu Pilgrimage, an annual celebration of the sea goddess.

Wikipedia: Dajia Jenn Lann Temple (EN)

Taichung Station Railway Cultural Park is a railway park formed by Taichung Station, a national historic site in Taichung City, Taiwan. The scope is the old and new railway space between Dazhi Road and Minzu Road, including the national monument Taichung Station, the commercial space of Taichung New Station and viaduct, the old Taichung Hou Railway Station, the No. 20 warehouse complex, the Fuxing Road dormitory (next to the No. 20 warehouse complex), the Taichung Service Office of the former Taiwan Railway Bureau Freight Service Headquarters and the Taichung Branch of the Changhua No. 1 Section of the Electricity Department of the Taiwan Railway Bureau. The north and south sides are connected to the Taichung Green Sky Railway, and are adjacent to the Cultural Assets Park of the Ministry of Culture, the Taichung Business Office of the Imperial Sugar Factory, the Taichung City Hall and the Taichung City Hall.

Wikipedia: 臺中驛鐵道文化園區 (ZH)

Huxin Pavilion, formerly known as Zhongzheng Pavilion, is a pavilion located on the island of Sun Moon Lake in Taichung Park, Taichung City, North District, Taiwan, built in 1908 to commemorate the opening of the whole line of the longitudinal line.

Wikipedia: 湖心亭 (臺中市) (ZH)

The 921 Earthquake Museum of Taiwan is a national museum in Wufeng District, Taichung, Taiwan. The museum is dedicated to the 7.3 earthquake that struck the center of Taiwan at 01:47:12.6 TST on Tuesday, 21 September 1999.

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Zemin Tree, located in Houli District, Taichung City, Taiwan, is located in the Yuemei and Yuemei Sugar Factory adjacent to the camphor tree, which is regarded as a sacred tree by the locals, named by Lee Teng-hui, then chairman of Taiwan Province, and is also the place where Hong Xiuzhu played in his childhood.

Wikipedia: 澤民樹 (ZH)

Yuemei Sugar Factory is a sugar factory of Taiwan Sugar Company located in Houli District, Taichung City, which was originally set up in 1909 as the "Dajia Sugar Factory", and before World War II, it was the "Yuemei Sugar Factory" of Nippon Sugar Industry, with a daily sugarcane crushing capacity of 800 metric tons. The Wolmei Sugar Factory continued to produce sugar after World War II until it ceased operation in 1999 and transformed into the Wolmei Tourist Sugar Factory.

Wikipedia: 月眉糖廠 (ZH)

Chiyoushan (Atayal language:), also known as Yuluofu Mountain and Youchi Mountain, is a well-known peak of Taiwan's Snow Mountain Range, with an altitude of 3302.648 meters and a third-class triangular point number 6317 on the top of the mountain, located between Pingpingli, Heping District, Taichung City and Yufeng Village, Jianshi Township, Hsinchu County, in the east of Xueba National Park. Taiwan's Baiyue ranks 52nd, one of the four shows in Wuling; Because there are several alpine ponds in the western grassland of the mountain range, such as Xinda Pond, Yamei Pond and Pintian Pond, it is named. Xing Tianzheng, an elder in the Yue Realm, is recorded as "Youchi Mountain" in the "Taiwan Alpine Schedule". The Yanan Atayal tribe of the Xitou group is called "", which is transliterated as Tamalapu Mountain; Japanese is translated into kanji. Chiyoushan is located on the north east edge of the main ridge on the north side of the Snow Mountain Range, connecting Pintian Mountain on the west side, and Taoshan Mountain, Shilun Mountain and Karaye Mountain on the east side.

Wikipedia: 池有山 (ZH)

Located in the North District of Taichung City, the Great North Gate (also known as Moon Pavilion) in Taichung City, was announced as a historical building on November 17, 2006, the 95th year of the Republic of China. It is a Qing Dynasty monument in Taichung Park, although it is no longer the original appearance after construction, it still has research and preservation value.

Wikipedia: 臺灣省城大北門 (ZH)

The prince of the Dali tree, or the prince of the umbrella tree, is located in the tree of the king of the tree in Dali District, Taichung City, Taiwan, which is regarded as a sacred tree by the locals, and is related to the local folk tale of Jiaqing Jun's visit to Taiwan, and is also related to the origin of the local "umbrella tree" and "tree king".

Wikipedia: 大里杙樹王公 (ZH)

Pinglin Forest Park is a forest park located in Taiping District, Taichung City, Taiwan, near Qinyi University of Science and Technology and Taichung General Hospital of the Taiwan Army. It covers an area of 11.4 hectares. It was formerly part of the Pinglin Camp of the Ministry of Defense. There is a detention pond and an outdoor plaza that can accommodate about 1,200 spectators.

Wikipedia: 坪林森林公園 (ZH)

Dali Seven Generals Temple, formerly known as the Seven Generals Temple of Zhongyi Temple, is located in Taichung City, Taiwan Dali District Xinli Seven Generals Temple, worship six members of the Qing army and a dog, to find lost property famous, reward the gods so many so there is "no next day" said.

Wikipedia: 大里七將軍廟 (ZH)

Jiayang Mountain, also known as Aduban Mountain, is located in Lishanli, Heping District, Taichung City, Taiwan, is a well-known mountain in Taiwan, and is also one of the 100 mountains in Taiwan, ranking 50th, named after the hunting ground of the old Jiayang tribe. At 3,314 meters high, Jiayang Mountain belongs to the Snow Mountain Range. There is Jianshan Mountain in the south of Jiayang Mountain, and it connects to Dajian Mountain in the north. It is characterized by a triangular mountain shape, with a large collapse wall on the east side, and its collapse soil and rocks are piled up to form a Jiayang alluvial fan.

Wikipedia: 佳陽山 (ZH)

The Datun County Office is an official building in charge of Datun County, Taichung Prefecture during the Japanese Occupation of Taiwan, located in the West District of Taichung City (behind the Taichung Prefecture Hall). After the war, it was used by the military police and the military village, and the interior was rebuilt several times, and a fire in 1980 caused partial damage to the building, while the residents moved out in 2002, and restoration works began in 2017. Originally, it was planned to be used as a modern art museum together with the surrounding buildings after restoration, but after Lu Xiuyan took office for a few years, Chengyi Group signed a contract with the Zhongshi government to operate it.

Wikipedia: 大屯郡役所 (ZH)

Jiyang Kangtai, is the main light of the 2003 Taiwan Lantern Festival, Yang Fengchen's work, when the largest main lamp in the past, the lantern festival is permanently preserved in Taichung Park, 12 years later in 2015 Taiwan Lantern Festival as the main light.

Wikipedia: 吉羊康泰 (ZH)

The Niumatou Site is an archaeological site dating from the mid Neolithic period in Qingshui District, Taichung, Taiwan. It is the oldest archaeological site in central Taiwan. The site has been designated as a historical relic by then Taichung County Government.

Wikipedia: Niumatou Site (EN)

Iris Mountain (Atayal language: ) is a mountain in Taiwan's Snow Mountain Range, located in Zhongkengli, Heping District, Taichung City, for the watershed of Dajia Creek tributary Xiaolai Creek, Dongmao Creek and Da'an Creek tributary Wushikeng Creek, with an altitude of 2191.1 meters, named after the mountain towering and looking like an iris beak from afar.

Wikipedia: 鳶嘴山 (ZH)

Chonglun Bunker along the Taichung City Railway, referred to as Chonglun Bunker, is located in Chonglun Li, South District, Taichung City, Taiwan, and is a fortification under the Taichung Line Elevated Railway between Wuquan Station and Daqing Station.

Wikipedia: 臺中市鐵路沿線崇倫碉堡 (ZH)

Located in Dali District, Taichung City, Taiwan, Dali Fuxing Palace, is the temple dedicated to the Virgin Mary of Heaven and is the local center of faith. The temple has the legend of "Yangben County defeats geography", and the content is that some officials want to defeat the local "Lotus Treasure Cave" feng shui and change the temple to a north facing south direction.

Wikipedia: 大里杙福興宮 (ZH)

Dichui Shan settles in the countryside in the Republic of China. It is located in the province of Taichung City and the province of Taiwan, in the central part of the country, 110 km west of Taipei with the capital. 1,714 meters above sea level is located in Dichui Shan.

Wikipedia: Dichui Shan (CEB)

The old Taichung Station is a station building used by the Taichung Railway Station from May 15, 1905 to October 15, 2016 before the Taichung Railway was elevated and opened to traffic. The old front station body is the second-generation Taichung Station rebuilt on March 31, 1917, and the old building (the second-generation station body), the front porch and the first platform were registered as second-class monuments (now national monuments) in 1995, and the second platform and the first-generation parking lot office were registered into the national monuments in August 2021; The old station was originally built in 1964 and is a historical building in Taichung City. In the future, the front and rear stations, the surrounding Taiwan Railway cultural assets and the 1.6-kilometer original railway barge will be preserved in situ, and the Taichung Station Railway Cultural Park will be established in combination with the surrounding related cultural assets.

Wikipedia: 臺中火車站 (舊站) (ZH)

Taichung Zhongxing Hall is a medium-sized indoor performance venue located in the North District of Taichung City. Opened in 1972, it is a 1 basement and 2 floors above ground, covering an area of 655 pyeong, with a total floor area of about 1,950 pyeong, and currently has 1,240 seats (792 seats on the first floor and 448 seats on the second floor), as well as wheelchair seats.

Wikipedia: 台中中興堂 (ZH)

Imperial Sugar Factory Taichung Business Office, for the Taichung factory established by Imperial Sugar Co., Ltd. in 1912, after the war became Taiwan Sugar Company Taichung Sugar Factory, closed in November 1990 and successively demolished the sugar factory and most of the buildings in the original factory area, now only the original Taichung Business Office office building. In 2013, it officially entered the land development project, and the total area of the sugar factory section was about 22 hectares, of which the ecological pool and the surrounding area of the plant were planned as 6.09 hectares of park), and the developable area was about 15.32 hectares, of which 8.88 hectares were classified as commercial areas, and Taiwan Sugar obtained 7.7 hectares, and the land development was completed in March 2016. At the end of 2019, the restoration of the building was completed, and it was renamed the Taichung Business Office of the Imperial Sugar Factory, which was opened together with part of the park (Taichung Imperial Sugar Factory Lakeside Park).

Wikipedia: 台中糖廠 (ZH)

Sakae Yamaoka (October 23, 1902 - May 9, 1930), a native of Zhongshan Town, Iyo County, Ehime Prefecture, Japan (now Iyo City), a teacher of the Dongshi Agriculture and Forestry National School in the Erzhuang Combination of Dongshi Street, Taichung Prefecture, died for the rescue of nine Taiwanese villagers and schoolchildren, and a monument was erected next to the Shuishui River in the new community of Taichung City.

Wikipedia: 殉職山岡先生之碑 (ZH)