Explore Taichung

Taichung Park is the city's oldest park, laid out in 1903 under Japanese rule in the North District and listed as a city historic site in 1999. Around its artificial lake stand the twin-roofed Lake Pavilion, built in 1908 for the opening of the west-coast railway, arched bridges and the remains of the former Taichung Shinto shrine.

The Taichung Literature Museum occupies a group of Japanese-era police dormitories in the West District, completed in 1932 and registered as historic buildings in 2009. Its six restored wooden buildings hold exhibitions on the writers and literary societies of Taichung, a children's literature room and lecture spaces, set in a small literature park.

The Taichung Confucian Temple in the North District was built between 1972 and 1976 in the style of the Song dynasty, following the layout of the Confucius Temple in Qufu. Its Dacheng Hall, gates and side halls stand in a walled compound of about two hectares, where the city holds its yearly ceremony for the birthday of Confucius.

The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts is the national art museum in Taichung's West District, opened in 1988 and reopened in 2004 after repairs to damage from the 1999 Jiji earthquake. Its collection covers modern and contemporary Taiwanese art, shown in changing exhibitions, with an outdoor sculpture park around the building.

Lecheng Temple in Taichung's East District is a Mazu temple founded in 1753 by Lin family settlers who brought a statue of the goddess from Meizhou. Its main hall dates from 1924 and its front hall from 1929, both by master carpenter Chen Ying-bin. Every third lunar month its Mazu sets out on a pilgrimage through eighteen villages.

The National Museum of Natural Science is a national museum in Taichung's North District, opened in stages from 1986 to plans developed under the architect Han Pao-teh. Its complex holds the Science Center, Life Science Hall, Human Cultures Hall, Global Environment Hall and a Space Theater, with a botanical garden and a large glass greenhouse.

The National Taichung Theater is a performing arts centre in Taichung's Xitun District, designed by the Japanese architect Toyo Ito with the engineer Cecil Balmond and opened in 2016. Its curved concrete walls form cave-like foyers and passages around three auditoriums, and the public areas and a rooftop garden are open outside performances.

Rainbow Village is a former military dependents' village in Taichung's Nantun District whose last few houses were painted from 2008 by the veteran Huang Yung-fu with birds, animals and figures in bright colours. Saved from demolition after a student campaign in 2010, it is kept by the city as a small art park around the painted houses and lanes.

Jukuiju Mansion is a two-storey house in Wuri District, south-west of central Taichung, built in the early 20th century for the local merchant Chen Shaozong. It joins a traditional three-sided courtyard layout with Baroque-style arcades, columns and gables, and has been a city-designated monument since 2012, restored in 2020.

The Wufeng Lin Family Mansion and Garden in Wufeng, south of central Taichung, was the seat of one of Taiwan's leading clans in the Qing era. The visitor area of the Lower Mansion takes in Gongbaodi, an official's residence begun in 1858, the Great Flower Hall of 1890–1894 with its Fuzhou-style opera stage, and the rebuilt thatched Caocuo.