Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Taipei, Taiwan

Taiwan Presbyterian Church of Jinan, commonly known as Jinan Church, Jinan Presbyterian Church, formerly known as Taipei Xingmachi Church, is a Presbyterian church located in Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, Taiwan. It was built and completed in 1916 by the Japanese Christian Church in Taipei, and after the war, it was transferred to the Presbyterian Church of Taiwan, and after the government of the Republic of China moved to Taiwan, there was a Taipei Chinese Chapel to share this church.

Wikipedia: 濟南基督長老教會 (ZH)

The National Taiwan Museum, established in 1908, is the oldest museum in Taiwan. It was founded by the colonial government during Taiwan's period of Japanese rule. The museum is located in Zhongzheng District, Taipei.

Wikipedia: National Taiwan Museum (EN)

Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Old Building, is located in Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, Taipei City in front of the business district of the city of Taipei, the work of Nomura Ichiro, completed in 1922, adjacent to the old building of the Quanye Bank, successively as the Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Taipei Headquarters, the National Army Retired Officers and Soldiers Counseling Committee Headquarters, Taiwan Land Bank Taipei Branch, the Supreme People's Procuratorate's Anti-Black Gold Operation Center, and the Office of the Special Investigation Group. It is now owned by the Land Bank of Taiwan and is idle.

Wikipedia: 三井物產株式會社舊廈 (ZH)

Located in the business district in front of Taipei Station, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, Taiwan, the old building of Quanye Bank was completed in 1933 and is the Taipei branch of Quanye Bank of Japan. After the war, it was liquidated and accepted, and was renamed the head office of the Land Bank of Taiwan, and in 1991, it was designated as a municipal monument in Taipei. In 2007, the Land Bank of Taiwan cooperated with the National Taiwan Museum to carry out a restoration and reuse project, and the museum was completed and opened in 2010, and is now the National Taiwan Museum of Paleontology.

Wikipedia: 勸業銀行舊廈 (ZH)

The City God Temple in Taiwan Province is located in Guangfuli, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, Taiwan.

Wikipedia: 臺灣省城隍廟 (ZH)

Kikuyuan Department Store is a department store located in Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, Taiwan, the company was founded by Japanese businessman Eiji Shigeta, established on November 28, 1932, and opened in Rong Town, Taipei City on December 3 of the same year. It is also known as the three major department stores in Taiwan during the Japanese occupation period together with the Lin Department Store in Tainan City and the Yoshii Department Store in Kaohsiung City.

Wikipedia: 菊元百貨 (ZH)

The original Taipei Credit Portfolio is located on Hengyang Road, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, Taiwan, near Zhongshan Hall and Taipei MRT Ximen Station. This building was designed by the Taipei Credit Union during the Japanese occupation period of Taiwan, and was designed by the Taipei Credit Union on behalf of the Taiwan Governor-General's Office technician Jing Tefung, and was completed in 1933. After World War II, the Taipei Credit Union was reorganized into the Taipei Tenth Credit Cooperative (Taipei Shixin), and its head office was still located here until the outbreak of the Shixin Case in 1985, which merged Taipei Shixin into the Taiwan Provincial Cooperative Treasury at the end of the same year, and the original Shixin Headquarters was changed to the Taiwan Provincial Cooperative Treasury City Branch. On January 1, 2001, the city branch was restructured into the cooperative treasury commercial bank with the Taiwan Provincial Cooperative Treasury, and was restructured into the "Cooperative Treasury Commercial Bank City Branch", which is now a municipal monument in Taipei.

Wikipedia: 原臺北信用組合 (ZH)

Zhongshan Hall is a historic building which originally functioned as the Taipei (Taihoku) City Public Auditorium. It is located at 98 Yanping South Road in the Ximending neighborhood of Zhongzheng District, Taipei, Taiwan. In 1992, it was recognized by the government as a historic site.

Wikipedia: Zhongshan Hall (EN)

The Taipei Futai Street Mansion, also called Yamato-chō Mansion , is the only existing historical and commercial building in Taipei, Taiwan. It is located at Yanping South Road No.26, Zhongzheng District and lies in the Bo'ai Special Zone as well. This mansion is owned by the Ministry of National Defense.

Wikipedia: Taipei Futai Street Mansion (EN), Website

Taipei North Gate, formally Cheng'en Gate, is a historical gate in Taipei, Taiwan, and a national monument. Constructed in 1884, it is the best-preserved gate of the historical Walls of Taipei. Its design is a two-story closed blockhouse of solid construction with traditional Chinese wooden roof truss and streamlined carved ornamentations. Important in the Qing layout of the city, restoring it to visual prominence in the city has been a feature of recent urban planning. It gives its name to Beimen metro station.

Wikipedia: Taipei North Gate (EN)

Mitsui & Co., Ltd.'s old warehouse, also known as Taipei Memory Warehouse, was originally located in Zhongxiao Qiaotou, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, Taiwan, built in 1914 by Mitsui & Co., Ltd. during the Japanese occupation, listed as a historical building, in 2015 due to the West District Gateway Planning Area moved to Jiaoba Square, resulting in protests by cultural groups, in 2018 after the reorganization and restoration of the art exhibition.

Wikipedia: 三井物產株式會社舊倉庫 (ZH)

Taipei West Railway Station Building B is a demolished highway passenger terminal in Taipei City, Taiwan, located in the southwest corner of the No. 6 Transportation Site of Taipei Main Station in the Special Purpose Zone of Taipei Main Station, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City. Originally established by the Taipei Transportation Department of the Taiwan Provincial Highway Bureau, Taipei West Railway Station was completed on May 12, 1950, and handed over to Taiwan Automotive Passenger Transport in 1980 and Guoguang Passenger Transport in 2001. It used to be one of the main departure stations of Taiwan Provincial Highway Bureau, Taiwan Automotive Passenger Transport and Guoguang Passenger Transport in Taipei; At 5 o'clock on September 28, 2016, all routes were moved to the Taipei transfer station after the transportation task was completed; On November 1, 2016, it was demolished and rebuilt as Taipei Travel Plaza.

Wikipedia: 臺北西站B棟 (ZH)

Taipei Travel Plaza (English: ), formerly known as Jiaoliu Square, is a green space on the northeast side of the intersection of the first section of Zhongxiao West Road and the first section of Chongqing North Road in Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, and is one of the rings of the West District Gateway Plan proposed by Taipei Mayor Ke Wenzhe, covering a total area of about 1.6 hectares, which was completed and opened on January 26, 2017 (the sixth bus station at the southern intersection of the square was opened for use on April 29 of the same year). The plaza is located next to the busy Taipei Main Station, so that passengers can find a neat and open green space next to the crowded station; It also enables residents to have a secret place where they can relax quietly in the noisy city.

Wikipedia: 臺北行旅廣場 (ZH)

Taipei West Railway Station Building A, located in the southeast corner of the No. 6 transportation site in the special exclusive area of Taipei Main Station in Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, Taiwan, is one of the main highway long-distance passenger (highway) stations in Taipei City, formerly known as Taipei East Railway Station, Taipei North Railway Station and Taipei Expressway Passenger Transport Taipei Terminal. In order to cooperate with the Taipei City Government's West District Gateway Plan, it was discontinued and demolished on October 30, 2016, and replaced with Taipei Travel Plaza.

Wikipedia: 臺北西站A棟 (ZH)

The Railway Department of the Office of the Governor-General of Taiwan is a National Historic Site in Taiwan. The site, near the Taipei North Gate, was in use for railway administration during the late Qing dynasty, but the current extant building is a Japanese colonial administrative building in Taipei dating from 1919, used until 1945 as the headquarters of the Taihoku Railway Bureau and the Railway Department of the Office of the Governor-General of Taiwan's Bureau of Transportation, and then from 1948 until 1990 as the headquarters of Taiwan Railways Administration. It was granted national monument status in 2007, and is a part of the National Taiwan Museum.

Wikipedia: Railway Department of the Office of the Governor-General of Taiwan (EN), Website