Futabaso

A former Japanese colonial era hot springs inn (溫泉旅館) in the Upper Beitou (頂北投) area, beside the Dingbi Bridge (鼎筆橋) on Shamao Road. It draws upon the iron-rich spring of Ziming Creek (紫明溪) rather than the sulfur springs more typical of Yangmingshan and was built above an earlier and smaller inn, the Sakuragawakan (櫻川館). The facility was reputedly operated by a mistress of Yamamoto Yoshinobu (山本義信, 1881–1969), a Japanese coal mining magnate and Banqiao township head who developed much of the surrounding hillside. In the post-war era the calligrapher Yu Youren might have resided here, though this claim is not well-documented, and it also served as a residence of Vice President Yen Chia-kan (嚴家淦) for a time. Nowadays it is a private guesthouse owned by Baoshan Construction (寶山建設招待所) and closed to the public.

Beyond the guesthouse, along the creek, stands stone buddha No. 68 (第68番) of the Taipei Shikoku Pilgrimage (台北四國八十八所靈場), a depiction of Amitabha (阿彌陀如來) associated with Jinne-in (神惠院). Since it is on private land it can only be viewed from a distance.