Entree Kibbles: Hamasen Railway Cultural Park (哈瑪星鐵道園區) and Penglai Area of The Pier2 Art Center @ Kaohsiung City in Taiwan

Saturday, October 11, 2025

Hamasen Railway Cultural Park (哈瑪星鐵道園區) and Penglai Area of The Pier2 Art Center @ Kaohsiung City in Taiwan

I didn't know how big The Pier2 Art Center was and totally assumed the stretch beyond this 30-meter wide road would be, simply, an extension of the popular attraction.

However, it featured the same kind of warehouses and there was a corresponding , that was literally one of a couple; the other being a .

As with the rest of Pier2, be entertained by the many quirky artwork on display; like the , the and an innovative futuristic machine made from spare parts of numerous machineries.

Conversion of abandoned warehouses into areas of activities, including as art exhibition halls, which totally wouldn't appeal to arts idiots like me.

This kind would be fun and more appealing; pity I wasn't in the mood to get sweaty. Gosh, I felt old. Anyway, it cost more than S$10 for 30 minutes for the ; time better spent relaxing and without looking like a goondu in the eyes of non-players.

was closed on Tuesdays! While I am not a train fanatic, my nephew is and I thought a few pictures of the interior would entice him to persuade his mum to bring him to Taiwan!

There were like mini train tracks all over the place and I am guessing a cutesy little train would chug along the trains every half an hour or something. To train fans, imagine having such a humongous train circuit running from indoors to outdoors; that would have been a dream for many.

What's a dilapidated building doing here?! That's the beauty; having something absolutely out of place, with trees growing out of its broken walls, amidst all the restored structures! I love.

It's a toilet by the way.

Next up was a scene that blew my mind away! An expansive space, like a humongous field, with numerous train tracks running through it and dotted with artworks in sync with the environment! Grass was a bit brown.

An impressive , providing much shade in the Railway Cultural Park. A piece of trivia; banyan trees are considered sacred in Buddhism.

Like a scene from an , this was repurposed as a swing! This would have looked even more eye-popping if installed on top of a hill!

Ridiculously large piece of luggage,on wheels, with metal pieces stitched up to look like patched up leather. You definitely need a giant to move it.

Uncomfortable furniture, fit for giants again.

History of this area; Hamasen is actually Japanese for "" and was a major "hub for railway and ocean cargo" given its proximity to a port that can park 40 below-10,000-tonne ships during world war 2. It was badly bombed during the war though.

While the tracks were no longer in use, there was still a service track for Kaohsiung Light Rail and an underground MRT station for the . The old station was also maintained and now known as .