Kaohsiung Harbor Train Station, the Takao Post – threatened with Demolition

Alarming to read in the Taipei Times of the possible destruction and demolition of the old Kaohsiung Harbor Train Station, otherwise known as the Takao Post. It’s been kept for some time at the Takao Railway Museum but now the light rail authorities want to turn the site into a park or something. The building, constructed around 1900 as the first railway station in Kaohsiung was classified as a historic monument in 2003 and has been a museum since about 2010 after ceasing to be a functioning station in 2008. However, it is a classic Japanese colonial period structure with a Chinese hip style roof. There is a campaign to preserve and save the building that will hopefully be successful…

The Takao Post when in use as a station

the site as a museum today