Destinations in Tainan City
Sicao Green Tunnel
(四草綠色隧道)
Sicao is famous for it's mangrove swamps, the mangrove diversity in the area is top on Taiwan's list. After the mangrove plants devoured an abandon canal, a magnificent green tunnel was formed. The Sicao Green Tunnel is also known as the "Taiwanese miniature Amazon River", with the diverse mangrove plants resembling that of the rain forest of the Amazon. If you ever pay a visit to this area, be sure to take a ride on the raft and enjoy the scenery.
Opening hours:
weekdays - 10:00、14:30 (fixed schedule)
weekends- 08:30~16:30
Ticket Price: 200 NTD
Transportation: Bus 10、99 (Sihcao Eco-Cultural Area station)
Fort Provintia
（赤崁樓）
To develop their colony in Formosa, the Dutch colonist employed labors in large number from mainland China to migrate to Taiwan (it is from this era that the Chinese started to populate the island). But in 1652, because of the inequality and mistreatment to the Chinese labor, a rebellion broke out in Provintia Street. After the rebellion was put down, the Dutch decided to strengthen their defense in Provintia Street, and Fort Provintia was built in 1653. This fort fell to Koxinga as well in 1662, and was abandoned and destroyed by an earthquake in the 19th century. After that, several Chinese monuments, like the Temple to the Sea God, the Wenchang Temple and Penghu Academy was built on the remains. In 1921 the Japanese rediscovered the remains of Fort Provintia while demolishing one of the Chinese monuments built upon it, and rebuilt it as a history museum. After WWII it became the Tainan City History Museum, and was renovated again in 1974 to became the monument it is today.
The streets near Fort Provintia is also one of the best place to find local Taiwanese food in Tainan.
Opening hours: 08:30~22:00
Ticket Price: 50 NTD
Transportation: Bus 3、5、77、88、99
Anping Historic Street
Tainan Confucius Temple
Temple of the Five Concubines
Anping Treehouse
Anping Oyster Shell Cement Kiln Museum
Old Tainan Magistrate Residence
Temple of the Flying Tiger General
Tainan Immigration Agency
Fort Zeelandia
（安平古堡）
Fort Zeelandia was the settlement built in Tayouan by the Dutch colonist in 1623. first as a base for the Dutch conquest of Penghu, but Penghu was considered to be Chinese territory by the Ming dynasty, the Dutch abandoned their plan after 8 months of battle. In return the Ming dynasty agreed not to interfere with the Dutch colonization of Taiwan, Thus began the Dutch Formosa period of Taiwanese history. In 1632 this settlement was fortified and renamed Zeelandia, which became the capital of the Dutch Formosa. In 1662 Koxinga siege and captured Zeelandia, ending the Dutch colony.
Opening hours: 08:30~17:30
Ticket Price: 50 NTD
Transportation: Bus 2、19、77-1、88、99 (Fort Zeelandia station)
Koxinga Shrine
（延平郡王祠）
Zheng Chenggong, also know as Koxinga. was a Ming loyalist and general in the dynasty last years. His father was a famous Chinese merchant / pirate that controls the commerce on the East Asia trade-routes. After joining the Ming navy and inheriting his father's fleet of over 800 ships, Koxinga fought in the struggle against the Manchurian Qin's conquest in China. Eventually the Ming force was defeated in several important battle and on the edge of a final defeat. Being an island close to China and a Chinese population resentful of their Dutch masters, Taiwan was a perfect base for Koxinga's plan of Chinese reconquista. So in 1661 he invaded Dutch Formosa and took the island in 1662, thus the first Chinese regime in Taiwan was established. Koxinga was praised by all the regime that ruled Taiwan since then, his loyalty to Ming was admired by the Qin officals and a shrine was erected as his memorial. His mother was Japanese, so the Japanese colonist see him as a pioneer of Japanese rule in Taiwan and convert his shrine into a jinjya, and the Chinese regime that took the island after WWII connects to his idea of Chinese reconquista.
Opening hours: 08:30~17:30
Ticket Price: Free
Transportation: Bus 88、H31、Red 3
Luermen Matsu Temple
Tainan Grand Matsu Temple
Eternal Golden Castle
Hayashi Department Store
Deyang Destroyer Exhibition Hall
Sio House Salt Museum
National Museum of Taiwan History