Kaohsiung Seeks to Reconstruct Japanese-era Park|百年前的壽山 台灣首座都會自然公園
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Shoushan is considered to be Kaohsiung's back garden. It is a very popular destination during weekends and holidays. One hundred years ago, when Taiwan was a Japanese colony, the Japanese turned this area into Taiwan's first urban nature preserve. The area still has facilities left over from this time, which people can now visit on guided tours.
On this tour, people are taken from Kaohsiung's Hamaxing to Shoushan. The stones on the two sides of the path may not appear to be anything special, but the tour guide explains they are actually the remains of a shrine. Meanwhile, the belief that this alley was built by the Japanese is wrong.
This road wasn't built until later, probably not until the 1930s or 1940s, so it wasn't a road leading to a shrine built during the Japanese colonial era.
Kaohsiung's Shoushan Park is regarded as the city's rear garden. It is always full of people on weekends and holidays. The mountain is full of overgrown paths and structures, which are considered to be from the Japanese colonial era. To learn more about the history, the Kaohsiung City Government commissioned scholars to conduct a survey. They discovered the Japanese had drawn up plans to create the first urban nature reserve in Taiwan starting at Hamaxing, and it was called Takao Park, after the Japanese name for the city. On Oct. 5, the city began offering guided tours of the ruins.
This park gave the city a new aspect, and it has a very good foundation. In 1923, when Crown Prince Hirohito traveled to Kaohsiung, he named this mountain Shoushan.
The scholars were able to recreate the overall appearance and identify remaining facilities. The city government said this will be used as a base for the reconstruction of Takao Park.
