According to Lu Han-hsiu, director of the Taichung City Government Cultural Affairs Bureau, the Japanese originally planned to turn Taichung into a “Little Kyoto,” and the grid-like planning of Yana-gawa and Midori-gawa are testament to how much work was put into it at the time. After renovation, the site of the Miyahara Eye Hospital has become a popular tourist spot, showing people the possibilities for reconstructing Taichung.
The historical building the Budokan Martial Arts Hall along Taichung’s Linsen Road is where prison wardens and police during the Japanese colonial period would practice judo and kendo. Inside, there are various artifacts like tea utensils, paintings and archery equipment on display, which were used to develop the practice of the six Confucian arts.
Starting out from the railway station, you can see the Baroque-style scenery of the Taichung Prefectural Hall, and the Taichung Shiyakusho, and from there on to the Budokan and then the Taichung Literature Pavilion and the Taichung Broadcast Studio, both of which are to be reopened next year, you can view the new, mainly historical, sites of the possibilities of a regenerated Taichung.
Photo: Tang Tsai-hsin, Liberty Times
照片：自由時報記者唐在馨
(Liberty Times, translated by Paul Cooper)
台中市政府文化局長路寒袖說，早期日本人將台中規劃成「小京都」，市中心棋盤式規劃，柳川、綠川等都可見證當時的用心。原像廢墟的宮原眼科經整修後重新開張，成為觀光熱點，讓人看到台中再造可能性。
林森路上「歷史建築台中刑務所演武場」是日據時期司獄官、警察日常演習柔道、劍道訓練場，房舍內除展示各種茶具、畫作與弓箭等文物，現以發展新六藝文化為目標。
從火車站出發可看見巴洛克風歷史建築台中州廳、台中市役所，再往台中刑務所演武場、明年將開幕的台中文學館、台中放送局，以歷史古蹟為主的新景點看到台中再生可能。（自由時報）
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