Opening hours, prices and tickets for places worth your time.
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.
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.
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