This area was once Bentian Pond (辨天池), a popular tourist attraction and dragonboat racing venue, with two islets known as Benten Island (辨天島) and Daikoku Island (大黑島). A small shrine to Benzaiten, a Japanese Buddhist and Shinto water deity, was built on the first island in 1924. The entire pond was later filled in to provide housing for people dislocated by the construction of Taoyuan International Airport in the late 1970s. The site is now the Yangming Community (陽明社區) on the south side of Taoyuan Railway Station.
Note: this location has vanished. Any information presented here is only for reference.
提醒：此地點已消失，本文僅供參考用途。
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- Wikipedia in Chinese (中文維基百科)
- Wild Land Travel (-地球上的火星人-下巴 (野地旅))
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- Japanese Colonial Era Taiwan (台灣日治時代)
- Shinto Shrines in Taiwan (台灣神社)
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