Recommendations of City Tour In Changhua County & Taichung City

彰化縣 CHANGHUA COUNTY

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1. 鹿港民俗文物館 Lukang Folk Arts Museum

https://eng.taiwan.net.tw/m1.aspx?sNo=0002113&id=2157

The Lukang Folk Arts Museum houses a fascinating collection of Ming and Ching dynasty artifacts: vintage photos, lacquer ware, porcelain, carved stones, embroidery, musical instruments, and other items. The building is an odd combination of Asian and Western architecture.

2. 扇形車庫 Sector Garage

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Located by Zhangmei Road, Changhua Sector Garage of the old Taiwan Railways is classified as a national heritage site. Built in 1922, the garage is characterized by a circular platform and 12 tracks that spread at 99 degrees like a fan. The only station of this shape in Taiwan, Changhua Sector Garage hosts locomotives at night after their long working day. The locomotives receive maintenance here, too. For these, the garage is nicknamed as the "hotel of locomotives." The century-old fan-shaped sector garage is a must-go for visitors in Changhua.

3. 八卦山 BaGua Mountain

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Bagua Mountain is Changhua's most famous tourist attraction. In the old days, the morning Sun in the spring at Bagua Mountain was hailed as the most beautiful of Changua's eight scenes. While it was once a battlefield, Bagua Mountain later became a hot spring area, and now it is known for monuments and the Buddha statue. Jioulong Pond Plaza, right in front of the statue, provides a birds-eye-view of Changhua Plain. There are Literary Hiking Trail, Bagua Mountain Silver Bridge, and Lai He Poetry Wall nearby. Bagua Mountain Skywalk is ideal for a walk through the clouds. Bagua Mountain is Changhua's important landmark. It not only suggests the area's development but also serves as a leisurely attraction for the locals.

4. 彰化孔子廟 Changhua Confucius Temple

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Established in 1726, Changhua Confucius Temple is famous for carvings in its main hall that are considered among the best in Taiwan. Its two central columns were carved from white stones of Quanzhou in Fujian Province. It is similar in style to the Longshan Temple in Lukang.

In front of the main hall placed a section of imperial path stone which is reserved exclusively for deities or emperors, and this accordingly reflects the high status of Confucius. Despite the fact that the Changhua Confucius standing today is a reconstruction completed in 1978 based on historical documentations, only 2/3 the size of the original one, it still managed to retain the architectural styles and collections from the Qing dynasty.

台中市 TAICHUNG CITY

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1. 台中第二市場 Taichung City Second Market

https://travel.taichung.gov.tw/en/attractions/intro/1366

The Second Market was built in 1917 by the Japanese colonial government as part of their plan to establish five marketplaces in Taichung. It was located in Shintomichō, a neighbourhood mostly inhabited by Japanese residents, and was therefore known as the Japanese market. The market sold high-end food, clothing, and wholesale fruits and vegetables to its wealthy customers. In the late 20th century, the market transformed into a popular tourist destination famous for its diverse selection of local Taiwanese cuisine.

2. 草悟道 Calligraphy Greenway

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Calligraphy Greenway is a green corridor well laid with trees on both sides, linking National Museum of Natural Science to National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. It’s an open space dedicated to arts and culture, and visitors can stroll around the grass mound on which many installation art pieces stand.

3. 文化部文化資產園區 Taichung Cultural and Creative Industries Park

https://www.rtaiwanr.com/taichung-city/taichung-creative-and-cultural-park

Converted from the old Taichung Winery complex, Taichung Creative and Cultural Park is the best-preserved ruins of a winery in Taiwan that dates back to 1916. In 2002, it became a cultural hub where the former warehouses are open to the public as a library, exhibition spaces and performance venues.

4. 高美濕地 Gaomei Wetlands

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Gaomei Wetland located on the south of the mouth of Dajia River is a land mixed with both sand and soil textures and comes in 1,500 acres. That explains why it has complicated yet rich wetland ecology and possesses the largest group of Bolboschoenus planieulmis in Taiwan. Due to diverse geographical features, the species of its ecology is quite abundant. Every year around fall and winter, large flocks of migrating birds would come here for either short or long stay over the winter, serving as the best spot for bird-watching.

以上介紹擷自交通部觀光局。
The above introduction is from the Tourism Bureau of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications.