Beitou Ginshokaku

A Japanese wooden hot spring inn built in 1934 on the hillside of Youya Road, its rooms terraced along the slope with extensive use of hinoki cypress in the interiors. The entrance retains its original wooden gate, stone lanterns, fish pond, and arched bridge in a Taisho and Shōwa era garden style. In 1980 the wuxia novelist Gǔ Lóng (古龍) was stabbed here during a drinking session in circumstances that remain disputed. The inn operated continuously until closing in 2014 and is currently under reconstruction as of 2026. Also known in English by various Sinified names such as Yin Song Ge and In Song Ger.