Taichung Photo Gallery - Historic Sites
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Taichung has a good assortment of historic buildings from the Japanese colonial era.During the colonial period, Taiwan was a major sugar producer. The Teikoku Sugar Factory was built in 1935 and remained in use until 1993 and subsequently repurposed into a heritage park that opened in 2019. Exhibitions are run inside the building while parkland surrounds the neighbouring lake.
Chang Hwa Bank's headquarters is over 100 years old and was designed in a Greek and Roman style.
Around the street corner, the Museum of Suncake occupies the former Chuan An Tang, which was a medicine shop.
The Taiwan Cooperative Bank occupies this distinctly red historic building.
National Taichung Teachers College
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The Taichung Prefecture Government was set up by the Japanese in 1920, covering the city of Taichung and the surrounding counties. Designed by Japanese architect Matsunosuke Moriyama, the building was completed in 1913 and was expanded 4 times until 1934. After World War II, it became Taichung's City Hall. I first expected it would be closed, but I noticed a few photographers crowded around the staircase. Curious, I wandered in and was told I could tour the facility after registering. The offices were closed but the hallways and courtyard were all open.
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Across the street, the Shiyakusho was built in 1911 and has been converted into an arts centre and cafe.   
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This restaurant is themed around nostalgia and they rebuilt a whole street, populating it with all sorts of stuff from children's toys to movie tickets. The restaurant was starting to fill up for lunch, but the workers didn't seem to mind I was walking around photographing.
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I was very impressed they re-created many stores inside the restaurant, and filled them with all sorts of merchandise from the era. Restaurant patrons would sit around these stores and sometimes even within.
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On the other side of the train station is Stock20, which are renovated warehouses previously used by TRA into artist studios.
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