Tainan City Tour

• 10:00 Assembly point: The Industrial Design Department (Dacheng Hall)

• 10:00-11:40 (100min) A stroll at NCKU

National Cheng Kung University was formerly named "Tainan Higher Technical School under Taiwan Governor's Office" when it was established in Showa 6 (1931). It was the best school of engineering education in Taiwan. With a history of more than 90 years, it started from Cheng Kung Campus, and has strived to become a comprehensive university with twelve colleges on eleven campuses. In addition to advanced modern teaching buildings, historical heritages can be seen everywhere on campus. Students feel the culture of Tainan as they study in the ambience. Not only can they acquire humanistic spirit, they can also develop more understanding and concerns on the history of Taiwan.

• 11:40-12:10 (30min) Transit time 🚗

• 12:10-13:40 (90min) Lunch will be served at Fucheng Food (Anping Main Store) for authentic Tainan cuisine, or an equivalent dining venue.

Fucheng Food - Anping Main Store is dedicated to preserving the authentic flavors of Tainan. Featuring a curated collection of century-old local snacks, traditional "Bando" (banquet) cuisine, and classic banquet hall dishes, the restaurant was honored with a 2022 Michelin Bib Gourmand recommendation. With the core concept of "Tasting all of Tainan in one stop," the interior features nostalgic red brick and wooden architecture, making it the quintessential destination for experiencing Tainan’s culinary heritage and group dining.

• 13:40-14:00 (20min) Transit time 🚗

• 14:00-14:30 (30min) Taijiang National Park

Zengwen Creek originates from the Dongshui Mountain beneath the Jade Mountain and flows into Taiwan Strait from between Annan District and Cigu. In the 17th century, it was called “Kalaowan”, where the Japanese, Hokkien and Pingpu people fished and traded. This is the first recorded naval battlefield in Taiwan – when Shen Yorong of Ming Dynasty came to Kalaowan with his army to defeat the Japanese. Hundreds of years have passed, where the river meets the sea is now teeming with hundreds of species of fish, shrimp and shellfish, whales and dolphins are seen swimming back and forth, and the ecological resources are bountiful, including the vast wetland ecology, mangrove landscape, and the habitat of Taiwan dark cicadas – an endemic species of Taiwan. In recent years, Taijiang National Park has promoted the conservation strategy of eco-friendly habitat creation, providing more friendly areas for black-faced spoonbills to inhabit and forage.

• 14:30-15:10 (40min) Transit time 🚗

• 15:10-17:00 (110min) National Museum of Taiwan History

Located in Annan District, it is separated from the Sankandian settlement by Yanshui Creek. Adopted the vision of "Taiwan in the World" and the new local studies as the foundation, it expounds the value of multiculturalism through the preservation and reclamation of Taiwan's cultural relics, dialogue and international collaboration on historical issues, and intellectual equality, and serves as a national history museum that promotes Taiwan's cultural identity and faces contemporary social issues. On the one hand, it provides information content, such as exhibition objects, documentary materials, image materials, models, and replicas, presents the knowledge interpretation of Taiwan's general history, and provides audiences, school teachers, research scholars and the general public who are interested in Taiwan's history a chance to read in depth. In addition, the permanent exhibition in the museum is "This Land, This People (Si-tu-si-min): The Story of Taiwan", while visiting this exhibition, you will start from the mysterious legend of origin, follow the changes of the times that happened time and again on this land, and see the appearance, voice, and story of the Taiwanese people under the grand history. This route walks in the Sankandian settlement to see how people's real living space was constructed, and through visiting the Museum of Taiwan History to systematically learn the history of the interaction between the land and the people in Taiwan's history, which is undoubtedly a relocation course as we look and the land of Taiwan.

• 17:00-17:40 (40min) Return trip