Tainan Yuanbao Amusement Park

The park first opened in 1961 as Tianren Children’s Amusement Park (天仁兒童樂園), founded by Gong Lianzhen (龔聯禎) on the site of his former hemp factory. Struggling operations led to the sale of the facility in 1973 to Yuanbao Enterprise Company (元寶企業) which reopened the park under its new name on November 9th of that year. At its peak the park offered some 47 rides and attractions and ranked among the largest amusement venues in Taiwan, with an adjoining hotel, bowling alley, and karaoke hall. The 1980s brought successive reversals: the hotel shut down, fires destroyed the bowling alley and karaoke hall, and nearby Wuzhi Amusement Park opened in 1988 and siphoned off an already dwindling audience. The original site was sold off to developers around 1988 and redeveloped into residential towers, while a surviving parcel was later converted into Yuanbao Sweet Osmanthus Park (元寶桂花公園).