During the Japanese period, the Sanrinka, the Forestry Section of the Taiwan Government-General, was in charge of surveying Taiwan’s forests. In 1925, drawing on these surveys, it launched the Forest Management Project—a policy that profoundly shaped the island’s forests for generations to come.

A century later, the former dormitory for the Sanrinka staffs on today's Jinshan South Road in Taipei has been reborn as the Conservation Station under the Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency, Ministry of Agriculture.

To bring this little-known history back to light, the Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency invited 407 research team from the Department of Geography, National Taiwan University, together with the Self Ltd., to co-curate the special exhibition “0km: Revisiting the Sanrinka.”

For the first time, visitors can explore rare hand-drawn maps, archives, and field survey records created by the Sanrinka staffs during the Japanese period. The exhibition invites audiences to return to the very place where they once lived and worked—retracing how Japanese foresters, armed with scientific methods brought from the West, sought to understand, manage, and reshape Taiwan’s forests a hundred years ago.