Dr. Huang Wen Residence

A narrow shophouse in the heart of Chiayi City combining reinforced concrete and timber in a modernist idiom, built in 1931 by the Japanese doctor Sakai Torajiro (酒井寅次郎). From 1935 it operated as a tea parlour known as Tsumoto Kissabu (津本喫茶部). After the war Huang Wen (黃文), a physician trained under Tu Tsung-ming (杜聰明), acquired the property and converted it into his Yusheng Clinic (育生診所) and family home. Huang played a prominent role in Chiayi’s medical and educational history as well as the 228 Incident. The building became Taiwan’s first registered memorial building in 2017 and was upgraded to a city monument in 2020. As of the mid-2020s it appears to be under renovation.