Guanxi Police Station

Built in the 1920s on the ashes of Guanxi Taihe Temple (關西太和宮), this single-storey reinforced-concrete station served first as an office of the hokō system of community policing, then as a local police substation. Hsinchu County Police vacated the building in March 2017 after relocating to a new three-storey complex and the original is undergoing restoration as of 2025, part of a planned heritage art park. The county designation extends to the timber dormitories immediately north of the station: the police chief’s dormitory, now a café; a row of four dormitories for single officers, used by a theater company; and several dormitories for officers with families, still under restoration.