(Shots taken with a Samsung Galaxy S hand-held smart phone.)
Location of Taichu Penitentiary and Kendo Hall:
Yesterday, David Reid, Nathan Barham and I visited the Taichu Penitentiary and Kendo Hall on Lin Sen Road. Built by the Japanese and then also pulled down by them, it had been rebuilt and re-imagined a few times. This latest restoration came after a huge fire in 2005 that essentially gutted the previous incarnation (as can be seen on Google Maps). Here are the pics I took of what now stands as one of Taichung's last remaining Japanese buildings. Another major site of Japanese architecture is to be found at the site of Taichung's soon to be redundant City Government Hall and offices on nearby Minchuan Road.
