A 343-meter tunnel excavated in 1944 on the strategic route from Daxi to Jiaobanshan, serving as both a transport link and an air raid shelter. It collapsed and was not restored until 1965, after which it operated as a single-lane road with military police directing traffic at each end. The south entrance retains calligraphy by Provincial Governor Huang Jie (黃杰). When the new Baiji Tunnel opened in 1993, the old tunnel was decommissioned. It was converted into a pedestrian walkway in 2007, with displays of the light-rail pushcarts (台車) that once carried passengers and freight through it by hand. Reopened in late 2025 after renovation as a combined heritage and ecology corridor.
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- Commonwealth Magazine (天下雜誌)
- Vocus: Linko Doesn't Live in Linkou (Linko不住在林口)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
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I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.