The Old Taipei Bus Station

Taipei’s modern bus station is adjacent to the city’s main railway station. The railway station has passed through a number of incarnations:

Here’s Taipei station as it looked between 1907 and the 1940s, a classic railway station as found in most Japanese occupied territories and Japan itself, when it was replaced with this structure…

This eventually gave way to the current station which has no architectural merit whatsoever, except that it is slightly more interesting than the modern bus terminus.

Anyway, close by the new bus station and train station is a parking garage that I believe is the old Taipei bus station – can’t confirm as sadly bus stations are never catalogued or photographed as thoroughly as railway stations. Anyway, here the building now being used as a parking lot: