Hydraulic Engineering Office

Sitting between the Zhongzheng Bridge and the car park at the down reach of Tengyun Bridge, Zhongzheng Riverside Park occupies an area of about 137,500m².

The Xindian River runs across Taipei City. Each riverside park along the river has individual characteristics. From the observation footbridge in the park, people can watch cars running below on the expressway from above with absolute safety. Looking from upstream Zhongzheng Bridge on the Xindian River, the magnificent Taipei 101 is in sight.

In the park, you can watch clouds on the spacious meadow, or see children and youths enjoying inline skating or skateboards, those sweating players in basketball, tennis, or software games, people cycling, strolling, or scampering for LOHAS or exercising, seniors sitting on the stone benches in the kiosk under the banyan trees playing chess, chatting, and brewing tea, or mothers enjoying folkdance with music from the karaoke from afar, in order to get closer to the common life.

Sportsground and fitness facilities: Basketball courts, roller rink, and tennis courts.

Children's play facilities: Swings

Other service facilities: Plazas, bike rental stations, and car park

Zhongzheng Bridge

Rock climbing is a sport derived from mountaineering. When we climb, we may need some gear for climbing. As pistons will damage the climbing wall's surface, in a time when environmental protection is a common consensus, people usually use wall nuts as the fixed or secured point for climbing. As artificial climbing gyms are increasingly popular these days, climbing has been brought to communities and our daily life, and is not more than a bridge too far. Before climbing, we must warm up and exercise until slightly sweating, particularly for the fingers. Climbers are recommended to stretch fingers and make a fist 50 to 100 times.

National Museum of History

Located on Nanhai Road in Taipei City, the National Museum of History (NMH) was built in 1955 in the style of Tiantan (Temple of Heaven) in Beijing. Of course, the museum building is smaller and more elaborate. In the beginning, the NMH mainly collected monuments of the Central Plain. Most of them were relocated from the Henan Museum from 1956 to the spring of 1957, and monuments returned by Japan after WWII. In the late 1980s, as the collection increased, the NMH began to collect Chinese, Taiwanese, indigenous, and global monuments on an equal basis.

Taipei Botanical Garden

Located on Nanhai Road in Zhongzheng District, the Taipei Botanical Garden occupying an area of about 8 hectares was opened in 1896, with a history of over 100 years so far. It is one of a few parks built during Japanese colonization surviving today. In the garden there is the provincial administration hall, a grade II national historic monument, and the herbarium for public visit. There are also over 2,000 plants in the garden, which is considered a great botanical classroom. Other features in the garden include a lotus pond, the Chinese zodiac zone, succulent plant zone, fern zone, Shijing plant zone, folk plant zone, and palm zone. These plants blooming in different seasons flourish the garden in the four seasons. The cultural and educational center formed by the Taipei Botanical Garden, National Museum of History, and National Taiwan Arts Education Center is praised as the "Nanhai Academy."