Taipei Japanese Wooden Homes

Qingtian Seventy-Six is a Japanese-style wooden house with a distinct combination of dark cypress walls and a surrounding garden of palm trees. Built in nineteen thirty-one, it served as the residence for Professor Ma Ting-ying, a…

The rows of Japanese style wooden houses on Jinan Road feature dark gray tiled roofs and thick cypress pillars. Built during the nineteen thirties, these dormitories housed forestry officials working for the Governor General of Taiwan. The…

The Rongjin Gorgeous Time complex stands out for the distinct, dark timber of its renovated Japanese colonial-era dormitories. Built in the early twentieth century, these buildings originally housed officers and their families during the…

The low wooden building with the mossy Japanese-style roof and the sprawling camphor tree in the courtyard was built in the nineteen twenties. It served as a dormitory for forestry officials during the period of Japanese rule in Taiwan.…

The Thome Courtyard consists of two red brick houses built in the nineteen twenties by a merchant named Chen Mao-tong. He brought bricks from the United Kingdom and used them to create a European style residence that stood out from the…

Fireweeds sits in Banxi as a small, unassuming coffee shop marked by an oversized, hand-painted wooden sign featuring a stylized red flower. This spot occupies a space once used by local craftsmen to store timber, but now it serves as a…

The Kishu An Forest of Literature features a low, wide wooden structure with an expansive veranda that sits suspended just above the ground. This site once served as an upscale Japanese restaurant in the nineteen hundreds, where writers…