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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Tainan City

10 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Tainan City, Taiwan

Updated November 26, 2024

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A former doorway in the Anping Tree House.

Tainan City, Taiwan

Anping Tree House

The tangled roots of a giant banyan tree have fully reclaimed the ruins of this abandoned warehouse.
Entrance gate to the Grand Matsu Temple

Tainan City, Taiwan

Grand Matsu Temple

Only through deep darkness and tragedy did this elaborate royal palace become a sacred temple.
Helmeted spectators watch as a beehive ends in fireworks.

Tainan City, Taiwan

Yanshui Beehive Fireworks Festival

A festival where people vie to be bombarded by exploding clusters of fireworks.
Shoaf Kepl Poets right after installation.

Tainan City, Taiwan

'Shoaf Kepl Poets'

A plaque by the roadside describes a three-dimensional glossary of an imagined language where words are numbers and numbers are words.
A display of milkfish suspended above the ceiling.

Tainan City, Taiwan

Saba Milkfish Museum

A small museum dedicated to one of the most popular fish in Taiwanese cuisine.
Hall of Edification

Tainan City, Taiwan

Tainan Confucius Temple

The first Confucian temple in Taiwan, founded by the son of a pirate lord, doubled as the island's first state-sponsored school.

Tainan City, Taiwan

Snail Alley

The residence of a Taiwanese literary scholar sits down an alleyway adorned with depictions of snails.
Suehiro Shrine

Tainan City, Taiwan

Suehiro Shrine at Hayashi Department Store

On the roof of the oldest department store in Tainan stands a Shinto shrine dating back to the 1930s.
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A display of milkfish suspended above the ceiling.

Tainan City, Taiwan

Saba Milkfish Museum

A small museum dedicated to one of the most popular fish in Taiwanese cuisine.
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