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The year was 1930. A steam locomotive train
slowly arrives in Taichū Station. People dressed in kimono get out of the train and started to walk outside
a Baroque style building. Signs in Japanese characters can be seen wherever they go. In what seems to be
a city in the Land of the Rising Sun, but apparently, it is not! Not even in a parallel universe. Because
this is not Japan, this was Taiwan.
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in time. To the decades when this island was still part of Japan. Together with Travel Buddy Rob, we searched
the remaining structures of a great city patterned after Kyoto.
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Central District. This was little Kyoto.
The center of development on the western coast of Taiwan a long time ago. At the heart of its commercial
trade is Taichung Station, the main gateway to the Taihoku Prefecture in the north and to the rest of the
world. After surviving many earthquakes, typhoons and the bombs of World War II, it still stands today. Despite
looking archaic, the history written on its wall will always connect the city's glorious past to its
future.
The center of development on the western coast of Taiwan a long time ago. At the heart of its commercial
trade is Taichung Station, the main gateway to the Taihoku Prefecture in the north and to the rest of the
world. After surviving many earthquakes, typhoons and the bombs of World War II, it still stands today. Despite
looking archaic, the history written on its wall will always connect the city's glorious past to its
future.
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Stepping out of the train station, you will
find at first that modern day little Kyoto which is Taichung City today looks frozen in the 60s or 70s. A
post-war Taiwan that boomed during its industrialization, tall buildings rose on this place in Central Taiwan.
They hid the alleys that were arranged like in a checkerboard with sections that appear to be some secret
passageways.
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