Beitou Museum

Date Captured April 9, 2026 at 08:41 UTC Camera DC-S5M2 Lens LUMIX S 20-60mm F3.5-5.6 Aperture ƒ / 7.1 Shutter Speed 1/250 sec Focal Length 32.0 mm ISO 100 Exposure Value 13.6  EV Original Size 3600 × 2400

A wooden structure built in 1921 as Kazan Hot Spring Inn (佳山旅館). During the war it served as a Japanese officers’ club and was reportedly patronized by kamikaze pilots. After 1945 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs took it over as Jiashan Guesthouse (佳山招待所) before it was auctioned to private hands in 1966. It reopened as a folk arts museum in 1983 and was designated a municipal monument in 1998. The complex also includes a 1940s tea house with a traditional Japanese rain-garden (落水庭園). Three stone buddhas from the Taipei Shikoku Pilgrimage (台北四國八十八所靈場) have been collected on the grounds: No. 40, representing Kanjizai-ji (観自在寺); No. 66, a thousand-hand Guanyin representing Unpen-ji (雲辺寺); and No. 69, representing Kannon-ji (観音寺).