Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #8 in Taipei, Taiwan

The full name of Zhu Cuo Lun Fu Ju Palace is Taipei City Zhu Cuo Lun Fu Ju Palace, located in Longjiang Road, Zhongshan District, Taipei City, Taiwan, and is a Taoist temple dedicated to Fu Zhengshen. Built in 1961, it adopts antique modern architecture. In addition, the temple is organized as a foundation corporation, and the festival date is the second day of the second lunar month every year.

Wikipedia: 朱厝崙福聚宮 (ZH)

The Huiri Lecture Hall is located near ZTE Middle School in Zhulun Street, Taipei City, Taiwan. It is the Buddhist temple of Shakyamuni. This temple was built in 1960 and is a traditional building temple located in Zhongshan District, Taipei. In addition, the temple's organizational form is managed, and the festival date is the eighth day of the lunar calendar each year.

Wikipedia: 慧日講堂 (ZH)

The crooked waist mailbox is a crooked mailbox with two signboards dropped by Typhoon Sudil in Zhongshan District, Taipei City, Taiwan, which has attracted great attention from the public because of its cute shape. Later, in response to the public's demands, Chunghwa Post agreed to consider retaining the crooked mailbox and further developing it into an alternative attraction in Taipei. Considering the safety and traffic conditions of the surrounding people, it was decided to relocate the crooked waist post box to the Taipei Post Office. However, the planned move was opposed by many people, and former Minister of Culture of the Republic of China, Long Yingtai, criticized Chunghwa Post for not understanding its value. After that, Chunghwa Post postponed the relocation work in response to the opinions of the public, and planned to discuss it with experts and scholars.

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The Miniatures Museum of Taiwan is the first museum to collect miniatures in Asia. The museum was founded on March 28, 1997, by Mr. Lin Wen-ren and his wife. It is located in Zhongshan District, Taipei, Taiwan.

Wikipedia: Miniatures Museum of Taiwan (EN), Website

Taiwan Rehabilitation Fellowship is a Taiwanese member of the International Rehabilitation Fellowship, which was initiated and established on September 29, 1981 by Lu Guodong, a retired warden of Yilan Prison, with the purpose of "preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ for the salvation of the inmates in all prisons across the country, guiding them to repent and convert to the Lord, renewing their lives through the Holy Spirit, and helping them to live a Christian life, so that they will no longer sin after being released from prison, and promote the peace and tranquility of the country and society".

Wikipedia: 更生團契台灣總會 (ZH)

Linsen Park, also known as Linsen Recreation Park and Zhongshan No. 14 Park, used to be the reserved site of No. 14 Park, a large metropolitan park planned by Taipei City before the war. Now it is a park, the park is located in Zhongshan District, between Lane 28, Xinsheng North Road, Nanjing East Road, and Xinsheng North Road, and adjacent to Linsen North Road and Recreation Park (No. 15 Park) on the west side.

Wikipedia: 林森公園 (ZH)

Recreation Park is the No. 15 park site of the large-scale metropolitan park planned by Taipei City before the war, and was originally a Japanese cemetery in Mihashicho during the Japanese occupation era. It is located in Zhongshan District, Lane 21 of the first section of Nanjing East Road, Lane 39 of the second section of Zhongshan North Road, and the area enclosed by Linsen North Road (located in the west of Linsen Park). At present, the land is fully developed as a park, and it was completed and opened in March 2002, also known as Zhongshan No. 15 Park, and is planned as a sensory experience park.

Wikipedia: 康樂公園 (ZH)

Completed in 1937, the building of Zhongshan Presbyterian Church is a Gothic Protestant church located in downtown Taipei. The church, which was originally a state-owned property, was donated to the Presbyterian Church of Christ in Taiwan in 1972 and designated as a municipal monument on October 14, 1998.

Wikipedia: 中山基督長老教會 (ZH)

Central Arts Park, also known as Central Park, Huashan Prairie, is a large park located in Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, Taiwan, formerly located at Huashan Station of the Taiwan Railway Administration.

Wikipedia: 中央藝文公園 (ZH)

Taiwan Presbyterian Church Jinan Church, formerly known as Taipei Kochicho Church, is a presbyterian church located in Zhongzheng District, Taipei City, built by the Japanese Christian Church in Taipei in 1916, and transferred to the management of the Presbyterian Church of Taiwan after the war.

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)

Juyuan Department Store is the first department store in Taiwan, located in Rong Town, Taipei City (now Hengyang Road and Boai Road, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City) during the Japanese occupation period, established by Japanese businessman Shigeta Eiji on November 28, 1932, opened on December 3 of the same year, and Tainan's Lin Department Store, Kaohsiung's Yoshii Department Store and known as Taiwan's three major department stores during the Japanese occupation. The seven-storey building, so it was commonly known as the "Seven Heavens" at the time, the second tallest building in Taiwan at that time, after the Governor's Palace, and was equipped with Taiwan's first commercial manned elevator and many modern equipment, which was a symbol of the prosperity of Rong Town in Taipei City during the Japanese occupation. After World War II, it was taken over by the Nationalist Government and closed, and the building continued to be used as a department store until 1979. It is now listed as a listed historical building in Taipei.

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

Constructed in 1884, Taipei North Gate, formally Cheng'en Gate, is the best-preserved gate of the Walls of Taipei, and is a National Monument of Taiwan. Its design is a 2-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 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)

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)

Building B, Taipei West Railway Station is a demolished highway passenger terminal in Taipei, Taiwan. It is located in the southwestern corner of the 6th corner of transportation 6 of Taipei Station, Taipei Station, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City. The Taipei West Station was originally established by the Taipei Transport Department of the Taiwan Provincial Highway Bureau. It was completed on May 12, 1950. It was transferred to the Taiwan Automobile Passenger Transport in 1980, and it was transferred to the National Light Passenger Transport in 2001. It was one of the main stations of the Taiwan Provincial Highway Bureau, the Taiwan Automobile Passenger Transport, and the Guoguang Passenger Transport in Taipei; at 5:00 on September 28, 2016, all routes were moved to Taipei Transit Station after completing the transportation task; November 1, 2016 Disassemble and change the Taipei Travel Square.

Wikipedia: 臺北西站B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

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.

Wikipedia: Red House Theater (EN)

The President's Dormitory of Taiwan Electric Power Co., Ltd. is a designated monument directly under the central government of Taipei City, Taiwan, located behind the Presidential Palace. It was originally the president's dormitory of Taiwan Electric Power Co., Ltd., and the original Western-style and Japanese-style buildings. Now only the Western-style building remains, its wall is a brick wall and the exterior is coated with cement with exquisite workmanship, and after World War II, it was used as the central guest house and the official residence of the chairman of Taiwan Province. The street opposite it was originally the site of Taiwan Electric Power Co., Ltd., which was blown up by the U.S. military in 1945 during the Taipei air raid.

Wikipedia: 臺灣電力株式會社社長宿舍 (ZH)

The Republic of China Armed Forces Museum was a museum located on Guiyang Street in the Zhongzheng District of Taipei, Taiwan. It opened on 31 October 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)

The Qingshui Temple also known as Tsushih Temple or the "Divine Progenitors Temple" is a temple in dedicated to the Deity known as Master Qingshui, a Northern Song dynasty Buddhist monk who is said to have saved a town from a drought and performed numerous miracles. The temple is located in the Wanhua District of Taipei City, Taiwan. The temple is often called "the most characteristic example of mid-Qing temple architecture."

Wikipedia: Bangka Qingshui Temple (EN)

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)