A remote alpine Shinto shrine on the summit of Mount Dabajian (大霸尖山), on the Miaoli-Hsinchu border, which is also featured on the NT 500 banknote. Not much is known about its precise location or ultimate fate but there are no reports of finding any relics at the summit in modern times. It is also a holy mountain for the Tayal people and isn’t frequently climbed so perhaps something remains of it. The mountain was known as Daihasen-zan in Japanese and the name is sometimes given simply as Daihasen-jinja (大霸神社).
Map
Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
Themes
- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Shinto Shrines in Taiwan (台灣神社)
- Indigenous People of Taiwan (台灣原住民)
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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.