Guanshan Police Dormitories

Date CapturedMay 20th, 2018 at 03:45 UTCCameraNIKON D3100LensAF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED IIApertureƒ / 7.1Shutter Speed1/200 secFocal Length18.0 mmISO100Exposure Value13.3 EVOriginal Size3600 × 2400

Guanshan retains the largest concentration of Japanese colonial era wooden dormitories of any police agency in Taitung, with approximately twenty units clustered around the station. These buildings likely date to around 1932, and they were built to house both soldiers and police officers. After the war they passed to the police, and they have remained in use as dormitories ever since. In 2016 the National Taiwan University Building and Planning Research Foundation (臺灣大學建築與城鄉研究發展基金會) worked with officers and residents to rebuild the bamboo fencing around a four-unit row on Qiuting Lane (球庭巷), part of a local heritage revitalization scheme. That row was demolished in 2025 to make way for a three-storey standby quarters for officers, though the wider dormitory group still stands.