Taipei Botanical Garden
City park of lotus ponds, a red-brick herbarium, and a relocated Qing-era government hall.
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This guide to the Taipei Botanical Garden follows a wooden Qing-dynasty government hall built in the late 1800s as a guest house for visiting officials, and the moment in 1895 when the same compound became the headquarters of Taiwan's new Japanese rulers. It traces the 1933 decision to dismantle the hall piece by piece rather than tear it down, and where workers carried it instead. Look for the low, dark-timbered building among the ferns and lotus ponds.
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