Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #8 in Taipei, Taiwan

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.

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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)

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.

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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.

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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)

The Red House Theater, often called Hong Lo Red Play House, Red Theater, Ximen Honglou or Ximen Red House in English, is a historic theater in Ximending, Wanhua District, Taipei, Taiwan. The theater is located at 10 Chengdu Road.

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Taipei Tianhou Temple, formerly known as Monga Xinxing Palace, commonly known as Ximending Tianhou Temple, Ximending Mazu Temple, is located in Wanhua District, Taipei City, Taiwan, Tianhou Temple, the main worship of Tianhou Mazu, the temple site was originally the Japanese Buddhism Shingon Hongfa Temple. The predecessor of the temple, Xinxing Palace, was built in the eleventh year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1746), the original site was Mongchuan Zhixing Street, which was expropriated by the Japanese government in 1943, and Tanyue temporarily enshrined the god in Monga Longshan Temple, and entered Ximending in 1948.

Wikipedia: 台北天后宮 (ZH)

Built in 1862 (the first year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty), it was built in 1862 (the first year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty) by Zheng Bian, a building materials merchant who ran Jebsen Commercial Bank, and the local family gentry such as "Hong, Wu, Huang and Li" jointly built the temple to worship General Zhushun, and it is also a local temple in Ximending.

Wikipedia: 晉德宮 (ZH)

Mongchuan Qingshan Palace, located in Wanhua District, Taipei City, Taiwan, is a folk belief temple built in 1856 (Xianfeng 6 years), mainly dedicated to King Qingshan Ling'an, and is now listed as a historic site directly under the Central Government of the Republic of China. Since the Qing Dynasty, the temple is one of the belief centers of the prince of the Hui'an people in Quanzhou, Sanyi, Quanzhou, Monga area, and there is a grand festival on the eve of the birthday of King Ling'an in Qingshan, and the main day is the grandest of the gods in the middle of the year in Wanhua District, commonly known as "Monga Great Worship", and is one of the three major temple fairs in Taipei City. Nowadays, Monga Qingshan Palace, Monga Longshan Temple, Monga Qingshuiji, and Ximending Tianhou Temple are collectively known as the "Monga Four Temple Gates".

Wikipedia: 艋舺青山宮 (ZH)

Snake Alley, also known as Huaxi Street Night Market or Huaxi Street Tourist Night Market is a market in Wanhua District, Taipei, Taiwan. The market is located near the Bangka Lungshan Temple as well as other night markets located on Guangzhou Street, Wuzhou Street and Xichang Street.

Wikipedia: Snake Alley (Taipei) (EN)

Bangka Lungshan Temple is a Chinese folk religious temple in Wanhua District, Taipei, Taiwan. The temple was built in Taipei in 1738 by settlers from Fujian during Qing rule in honor of Guanyin. It served as a place of worship and a gathering place for the Chinese settlers. In addition to its Chinese Buddhist elements, it includes halls and altars to Chinese folk deities such as Mazu and Guan Yu.

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The Bangka Park is a park in Wanhua District, Taipei, Taiwan.

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