Kaohsiung City Hall

Designed by Ono Yonejirō (大野米次郎) and built between 1937 and 1939 in the late Japanese colonial imperial crown (帝冠) style, this reinforced concrete government building replaced an earlier city hall in the Hamasen area of Kaohsiung City. During the 228 Incident of March 1947 it housed the local branch of the Settlement Committee; Nationalist troops fired on residents and committee members in and around the plaza, leaving bullet marks still visible on the exterior walls. The municipal government moved out to Lingya in 1992 and the building reopened in 1998 as the Kaohsiung Museum of History.