Chiayi City Historic Relic Data Museum

The Chiayi City Historic Relic Data Museum has been listed as a historic site. It contains two buildings -- the religious fast house and the social affair house. The fast house was a place for fast and preparation before sacrifices. The social affairs house, which was connected to the Chiayi Shrine during the Japanese colonial occupation of Taiwan (1895-1945), was an office for the shrine's administration management.

Both buildings were constructed in Japanese architectural style. Their ceilings, paper doors and verandahs, as well as the details of their roofs such as the eaves, ridges and spines, are like those of traditional Japanese buildings. Today, the two buildings can be seen as representative of traditional Japanese residential culture.

The Chiayi City Government assigned professional reconstruction agencies to restore the two buildings. In October 1998, the fully restored and repaired buildings were ratified by the government as a distinguished historic site. On September 15, 2001, the Chiayi City Historic Relic Data Museum was opened to the public. It is considered the best place where one can understand the history of Chiayi.