Beitou Hot Spring Museum
A public bathhouse built in 1913, now a free museum
A fuller guide to this place, built from 4 sources, is written in Traditional Chinese.
Being there
Take off your shoes and go up to the tatami hall, then see the great bath downstairs. Free entry. Closed Mondays.
The story
The Japanese built this public bathhouse in Beitou in 1913: red brick, timber and stained glass, a grand bath for its time. After the war it was abandoned for decades and almost forgotten. In 1994 a teacher at Beitou Elementary School took pupils on a local-history project and rediscovered the building in the weeds; teachers, children and neighbours campaigned to save it, and it became today's museum.
