Out for a walk in Taichung

I live in Xi district and I was walking to the Carrefour behind the train station and I decided to walk up Linsen road between Lequn and Fuxing.

I saw this banyan tree filled with lanterns.

It was in a courtyard surrounded by these buildings:

This was a municipal building at one point.

This served as a jail at some point, a dojo dormitory before that.  Now it’s a space for art installations.

There’s a Japanese tea shop there from the time of the Japanese occupation.

This is the front of it.

I’m glad I decided to take a different route than normal.