Completed in 1940, this civilian seaplane facility became Taiwan’s second international airport, also known as Bizitou Seaplane Base (鼻仔頭水上機場). While passenger service linking Taiwan to Japan and Thailand operated for a brief period, it was expropriated by the Japanese military in 1943 and contributed to the war effort. The site is still an active military installation so it isn’t open to the public and can only be viewed from the shoreline to the north. Nowadays little remains of the former airport apart from some of the landscaping and a series of air raid shelters.
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Heritage Status
- Municipal Monument (直轄市定古蹟)
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)
- World War 2 History in Taiwan (台灣第二次世界大戰歷史)
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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.