Yout can’t, but you can stand outside of it and lean like Michael Jackson.
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You can also hit these places along the way
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So if I enter without permission that would make me a…
smooth criminal
Sha-moan!
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Thanks. Looking at the map, I realize that I spent the night in quaint Fenqi Hu (奮起湖) last year after a visit to Alishan. I hiked a trail there with an interesting name and legend, Cake Thief Trail (originally 偷吃糕仔崁, now 糕仔崁古道)
(https://goo.gl/maps/CdobsgVGLszqCKVS7)
If only I had driven a little more north I would have discovered that leaning temple.
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三腳渡天德宮
This is the only temple in Taiwan that can be lifted by hydraulics in case of a Typhoon.
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I like that the address is on Wankan Industrial Road.
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In a similar vein (heh heh) is this “holy” place in Tai Dong (giggle)
男人石
08 985 1004
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Stone Temple in Tianliao District, Kaohsiung City
Not the weirdest, but definitely interesting, especially the back story involving stranded migrant workers from SE Asia.
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Technically a Catholic Church but the Holy Trinity Church in Yanshui, Tainan that’s done up like a Chinese temple complete with a Confucian Last Supper:
https://www.ncregister.com/blog/taiwans-holy-trinity-church-draws-souls-to-christ?amp
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Frigging amazing. I wish there are also paintings of Confucian styled nativity and crucifixion.
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This temple in Kaohsiung is very odd, since it looks like a hybrid of Japanese and Taiwanese temples on the outside, and inside the statue of their god looks like this.
This is also in the temple
Yeah, strange all around.
The main god is a Japanese naval official called 高田又男 (Takada Matao) from Kumamoto. The locals fished a skull out of the ocean in 1946, and the temple’s tâng-ki (oracle) who didn’t speak Japanese spoke in fluent Japanese saying that he was the captain of IJN’s No. 38 Type D escort ship, which was sunk by USS Hardhead on Nov 25 1944 near Corregidor.
Anyway, the locals considered the skull a god, and the god demanded that they take him to Gokoku Shrine in Okinawa and visit the shrine for the fallen naval officers. That trip to Okinawa in 1990 made the temple known in Japan.
This spring the temple’s representatives went to Japan to visit the son of their god.
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Guys, I found another one…
This is an abandoned Chiang Kai-shek temple, where Chiang Kai-shek was worship as a city god (Sîng-hông). You can find it by searching 城隍廟 - 中正紀念堂 (City God Temple - CKS memorial hall).
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Not too far. Might have to go pay it a visit!
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