Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #4 in Taipei, Taiwan

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Number of sights 19 sights
Distance 7.3 km
Ascend 136 m
Descend 138 m

Explore Taipei in Taiwan with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in TaipeiIndividual Sights in Taipei

Sight 1: Armed Forces Museum

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Armed Forces Museum Carpkazu / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Republic of China Armed Forces Museum was a museum located on Guiyang Street in the Zhongzheng District of Taipei, Taiwan. It opened on October 31, 1961, under the administration of the Republic of China Ministry of National Defense Department of History and Translation Office. The Museum encompassed 3 floors, and served to preserve and present the heritage and history of the ROC military to the general public.

Wikipedia: Republic of China Armed Forces Museum (EN)

360 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 2: National History Museum Exhibition Hall

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The National History Museum is the highest historical and political agency of the Republic of China government. It is a directly -owned institution of the Presidential Palace. It is the main task of compiling the national history, historical materials, historical materials collection, and collection of historical materials, and the management of presidents and deputy presidential cultural relics that have been unascured since the Constitution of the Constitution.

Wikipedia: 國史館 (ZH)

131 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: 婦聯總會舊址

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The China Women's Federation building is a registered historic site in Taipei, Taiwan. It is located on Changsha Street in the Zhongzheng District of Taipei.

Wikipedia: China Women's Federation (EN)

212 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: 原臺北信用組合(合作金庫城內支庫大樓)

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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)

291 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Zhongshan Hall

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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), Website

581 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 6: Taiwan Land Bank Exhibition Hall, National Taiwan Museum

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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)

226 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: National Taiwan Museum

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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)

308 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: 二二八公園福德宮

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228 Park Fude Palace, located in Taipei City, 228 Park Rush Gong Hao Yifang, address: No. 109, Huaining Street, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, commonly known as the New Park Land Temple, the main worship of Fu Zheng God (Land Gong), is a well-known land temple located in the Boai Special Zone, is one of the most famous land temples in northern Taiwan.

Wikipedia: 二二八公園福德宮 (ZH)

453 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 9: Jieshou Park

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Jieshou Park is an urban type park in Zhongzheng District, Taipei, Taiwan.

Wikipedia: Jieshou Park (EN)

514 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 10: South Gate of Taipei

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South Gate of Taipei 台北旅遊網 / Attribution

The South Gate of Taipei City, also known as the Great South Gate, is located at the intersection of Park Road and Aiguo West Road, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, Taiwan, and is now listed as a national monument of the Republic of China.

Wikipedia: 臺北府城南門 (ZH)

351 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: Datong House

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Datong House, located in Taipei, Taiwan, Zhongzheng District, Boai Special Zone, next to the former residence of Yan Jiagan, completed in 1954, was originally a guest house for the US military stationed in Taiwan, and later became the office of former Taiwan President Yan Jiagan, and is now a national monument.

Wikipedia: 大同之家(含網球場) (ZH)

53 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Yen Chia-Kan's Residence

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The former residence of Yan Jiagan, located in the Boai Special Economic Zone, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, Taiwan, is the official residence of Yan Jiagan, the 5th president of the Republic of China, and is a national monument.

Wikipedia: 嚴家淦先生故居 (ZH)

279 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: 自由之家

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The Freedom House is the national monument of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of China. It is located on the patriotic West Road, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, Taiwan.

Wikipedia: 自由之家 (臺北市) (ZH)

521 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 14: Herbarium of Taipei Botanical Garden

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The Taipei Botanical Garden Leaf Pavilion was built in 1924 as the Leaf Pavilion of the Forestry Department of the Academia Sinica of the Governor-General's Office. In the early days of the Japanese occupation, in order to develop Taiwan's forest resources, he planned to engage in the "Taiwan Plant Survey Project", and the plants collected in the field were dried and made into "leaf specimens" for preservation, so as to identify plant species. As a result, the museum became the first herbarium in Taiwan to be built specifically for the storage of plant leaf specimens, and is the birthplace of Taiwan's forestry research and plant resources survey. The museum is affiliated with the Forestry Laboratory of the Council of Agriculture, an administrative body of Taiwan, and was declared a municipal monument by the Taipei City Government in 2008. The precious herbarium has now been moved to a modern herbarium. 2016 is the 120th anniversary of the Taipei Botanical Garden, and the Forestry Laboratory is to inherit the history of plant research in Taiwan. Reopened in 2017, it provides a glimpse into the history of botanical research and continues the mission of botanical research, conservation and education in Taiwan.

Wikipedia: 台北植物園腊葉館 (ZH)

279 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 15: National Museum of History

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National Museum of History Yu tptw / CC BY-SA 4.0

The National Museum of History is located in the Nanhai Academy in Zhongzheng District, Taipei, Taiwan. After the Republic of China government moved to Taiwan, the National Museum of History was the first museum to be established in Taiwan.

Wikipedia: National Museum of History (EN), Website

373 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 16: National 228 Memorial Museum

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National 228 Memorial Museum 臺北市政府觀光傳播局 / Attribution

The Taiwan Education Association Building is a building in Zhongzheng District, Taipei, Taiwan.

Wikipedia: Taiwan Education Association Building (EN), Website

350 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 17: 臺灣菸酒公司

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The Monopoly Bureau was established in 1901 as a public sales organization during the Japanese occupation period in Taiwan. It was under the jurisdiction of the Governor-General's Office of Taiwan, and was later reorganized into the "Taiwan Provincial Monopoly Bureau" in 1945, and then changed to the "Taiwan Provincial Tobacco and Alcohol Sales Bureau" in 1947. Its office building is located next to the south gate of Taipei's Fucheng, which was the center of Taiwan's monopoly business until the Public Sales Bureau was privatized as Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Co., Ltd. in 2002.

Wikipedia: 專賣局 (ZH), Website

1531 meters / 18 minutes

Sight 18: 濟南長老教會

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Taiwan Presbyterian Church Jinan Church, formerly known as Taipei Kochicho Church, is a Presbyterian church completed in 1916 in Kochicho, Taipei City. In 1945, when the Chinese Kuomintang government was defeated and came to Taiwan, the church was renamed Jinan Street Presbyterian Church and Jinan Road Presbyterian Church twice because of the change of road name, and in the 1950s, it was officially named Taiwan Presbyterian Church Jinan Church.

Wikipedia: 濟南基督長老教會 (ZH)

466 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 19: Control Yuan Building

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Control Yuan Building 監察院 / Attribution

The Office of the Supervision Yuan, formerly known as the Taipei State Office or Taipei State Hall, is a government office building located in Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, Taiwan.

Wikipedia: 監察院廳舍 (ZH)

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