An original Shingon Buddhist temple from the Japanese colonial era, neatly restored and open to the public for a small fee of around 30 NT. Established in 1917 as the Yoshino Shingon Mission (真言宗吉野布教所). It still contains several original stone monuments representing the 88 temples of the Shikoku Pilgrimage (四国遍路) in Japan (as well as reproductions of those monuments that have gone missing over the years).
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- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Taiwan Cultural Memory Bank (文化部國家文化記憶庫)
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- 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.