Tainan City's Salt Field Eco-Cultural Village

Upon crossing the Sitsao Bridge, salt fields come into view. Stretching on for miles, irregular in size and shape, they evoke a landscape of solitude that has not changed in the past century. Against the tranquil and expansive horizon, the days of salt fields seem to conjure up the lives of diligently hardworking salt field workers and majestic views of snow-white salt mounds. As time evolves, the salt field worker is transforming into the engine of the cultural village, once again infusing this sleepy field with new energy and a nostalgic flair.

The Salt Field Eco-Cultural Village preserves a series of important cultural monuments passed down from the Japanese colonial occupation (1895-1945). These include the salt shipping docks and granite embankment, the old salt shipping navigation course, stone-laid fence walls and a "Salt Village Inaugural Tablet". Here, visitors are given a concise profile of the salt field worker's hard work through the cultural salt field tour guide's enthusiastic introduction to the salt production industry and the process of salt making.