Beitou Bank of Taiwan Dormitories

A cluster of three Japanese colonial era buildings arranged along a stream in a “flying geese” (雁行式) layout. The oldest structures (B and C) date to around 1919 and were originally the private villa of Kozuka Kanekichi (小塚兼吉), a Nagoya-born stationery merchant; the largest (A) was built between 1932 and 1935 as the Shin-Matsushima hot spring inn (新松島旅館). All three were acquired by the Bank of Taiwan in 1941 and used variously as a staff club, employee dormitories, and briefly in the 1960s as intelligence bureau housing. Soong Mei-ling is said to have used one of the buildings for short retreats in the late 1950s.