Taipei Post Office

Taipei Post Office (Chinese: 臺北郵局; pinyin: Táiběi Yóujú; Minnan: Tâi-pak Iû-kiȯk) or Taipei Beimen Post Office (Chinese: 臺北北門郵局; pinyin: Táiběi Běimén Yóujú; Minnan: Tâi-pak Pak-bûn Iû-kiȯk) is a four-story building located close to Beimen (lit.

[1] March 1895 marked the end of the First Sino-Japanese War when the Japanese troops from Hiroshima came to conquest their land on the Pescadores.

The Taipei Post Office that became one of the three main mailing administrative headquarters during the Japanese Colonial Period was built near the Beimen location of today’s building.

After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945, the post office tore down its northern wing arch passages, due to the increasing flow of postal service in the 1960s.

To settle the debate, the government ordered this post office building to be protected as a third-degree national historic site on 14 August 1992.

After 2000, postal service unit switched its usual position and started to furnish the site and to sustain the image as original as possible.

The front of the building has four pairs of classical double pillars, which together embrace two large and one small window frames.

Taipei Post Office in 1930
The Baroque architectural details of the building