The Kunyang Rest Stop is located between Wuling and Yuanfeng, around 30.7K of the Taiwan Provincial Highway 14 of Zhongheng Wushe branch line, and 3,090 meters above sea level. It was where the Hehuanshan Police Post was located during the Japanese occupation.
Located on the southern edge of Qianliang Mountain, at an altitude of about 750 meters, the platform behind the shelter is the foundation of the Xianbi Police Post from the Japanese occupation period. The police post was established in the 13th year of Taisho (1924), and until today, there are fragments of utensils, guns and ammunition depots from the Japanese occupation period on the ground.
The Xiama Hamlet is located in Wulu Village, Haiduan Township, Taitung County, close to the top of the Southern Cross-island Highway, on a slope about 700 meters above sea level. The hamlet was originally located on a hillside about 1 km southeast of the present site and was formed under the Japanese government's forced relocation after the middle of the Japanese occupation. In the Bunun language, this place is called Vauvu, which means spine. It got its name because the mountain looks like a spine from a distance. There are only four Bunun families who originally lived near Vauvu. The Japanese named the place Ivaqo, set up a police post in the area to rule, and began to ask the Bunun people that were living scattered in the adjacent mountainous area to migrate to Ivaqo. In the late Japanese occupation period, Xian became a small settlement of about 10 households. In 1975, due to the collapse of the foundation caused by the typhoon, the government moved the residents from the old hamlet to the present location.
The Minami Police Post is located between the Zhizhushan Police Post and the prefectural boundary, with an altitude of about 3,225 meters. Unlike today, where one could pass through the police post, at that time, the traversing trail bypassed the outer wall of the post.
This image shows the stacked stone wall and rammed earth wall left on the Minami Police Post. The scope of the police post is approximately trapezoidal, about 40 meters long and about 35 meters wide, while the beveled stone wall is about 44 meters. There are remains of porcelain fragments, wine bottles and other containers to be seen on site.
Belonging to the Yushan National Park, the Central Gold Mine Hut is located in Xinyi Township, Nantou County, at an altitude of 2823 meters and about 4 kilometers away from Xiugu plain. The hut is made of steel, two levels with 20 beds, solar panels for providing night lighting, simple toilets next to it, and is equipped with picnic tables and chairs, etc. The water source came from the clear stream next to the fork road from the hut to the Dujuan campsite. The Central Gold Mine Hut was built on the foundation of the former Xiuguluan police post from the Japanese occupation period. It got its name from Mount Xiuguluan, and was known for gold mining during the Japanese occupation.
The Zhizhushan Police Post (Dujuan Camp) is located between the Xiuguluan Police Post and the South Police Post, about 3,150 meters above sea level. The police post was named after the flower Rhododendron that was abundant in the area. Hence, some call the police post the Rhododendron camp (Dujuan Camp). The Batongguan Traversing Historic Trail from the Japanese occupation period was located about 30 meters below the post, and so it is not the current mountaineering road that passes the post. During the Japanese occupation period, there were iron wires between the traversing historic trail and the post, which illustrates how indigenous peoples were prevented from entering the area at that time. Today, many living utensils from the past, such as wine bottles, can be found around the station.
This image shows the current state of the barrier behind what used to be the Zhizhushan police post, about 1.2 meters high and 18 meters long.
The front door and the back door of the police post have rammed earth walls with layered stones and the ground is covered with pine needles.
The Banaik Refuge Mountain Shelter is located about 100 meters away from the Barnaik police post that was built during the Japanese occupation period. Due to the insignificance of its geographical location, the Banaik police post was abolished at the end of the Japanese occupation period. The origin of the location’s name is unknown.
The Bunun people call this place BaBahrasno, which means "river" because on the southern side of the Batongguan plain, there was a small tributary of the Yanong River passing through it. When the "Central Road" was built during the Qing Dynasty, this place was used ot be called Pantonukua, which is the Cou language for Yushan. This was later transliterated to Batongguan, and the path is being use to this day.
Due to the dangerous terrain and that Batongguan has a good outlook, there were police officers stationed there with trenches, observation decks, and shooting ranges during the Japanese occupation period. There was a wrestling field in front of the station. Every autumn a wrestling competition is held between the police posts, and there are two rows of rammed earth walls about 1.2 meters high. Batongguan plain was a place where the historic trail of Japan and of Qing Dynasty intersects.
The Bunun people call this place BaBahrasno, which means "river" because on the southern side of the Batongguan plain, there was a small tributary of the Yanong River passing through it. When the "Central Road" was built during the Qing Dynasty, this place was used ot be called Pantonukua, which is the Cou language for Yushan. This was later transliterated to Batongguan, and the path is being use to this day.
Due to the dangerous terrain and that Batongguan has a good outlook, there were police officers stationed there with trenches, observation decks, and shooting ranges during the Japanese occupation period. There was a wrestling field in front of the station. Every autumn a wrestling competition is held between the police posts, and there are two rows of rammed earth walls about 1.2 meters high. Batongguan plain was a place where the historic trail of Japan and of Qing Dynasty intersects.