Songben Police Post is located on a convex ridge south-west of Mount Mingdouyo. It is about 1,360 meters above sea level and faces Atayal’s Rokkaho Hamlet (Lwax khu) of the Syakaro group across the stream. In the early days of the Japanese occupation, the Governor-General in Taiwan implemented a five-year (Lifan) indigenes management plan. The high-pressure governance measures caused dissatisfaction among the Atayal people and so in 1917, they fought with the Japanese which resulted in the Syakaro incident. Since it was an important strategic location, the Governor-General immediately set up a checkpoint in the following year. The Songben Police Post was then established in 1922, but was withdrawn after the people of Shishe of Syakaro group took refuge in the Beikeng River basin. To this day, the police post has been rebuilt into residential houses.
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