The home of Nakano Kintarō (中野金太郎), a Japanese merchant who arrived in Tamsui in 1895 and moved from innkeeping into freight and petroleum sales, from 1915 until the end of the Japanese colonial era. The two-storey house behind Douglas Lapraik & Co. pairs a Western exterior with Japanese interiors, and from 1955 it housed the director of the navy shipyard. Designated a monument in 2008, it reopened to the public in October 2026 after a five-year restoration.
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- Status:Public (公有)
- Heritage designation:Municipal Monument (直轄市定古蹟)
- Address:新北市淡水區中正路20巷1號
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Links
- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Cultural Assets Bureau (文化部文化資產局)
Themes
- 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.