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Route Introduction
│Tainan Shrine and Outer Garden (Cheng-Kung Bridge) │
The Shrine is a worship place for the traditional Japanese religion, "Shintoism." "Shintoism" belongs to animism and is a polytheistic belief. The original site of the Tainan Shrine is located in the Tainan Art Museum II. During the Japanese rule period, the government deified Prince Kitagawa Yoshihisa's last residence into Tainan Shrine to Japanized Taiwanese from belief. It was built in 1922 (Taisho 11 years) and completed in 1923; and listed as the official middle-scale government Shrines on October 31, 1925. The outer garden of the Shrine expanded in 1936. Its scope is from Zhong-Yi road in the west to Nan-Men road in the east, from You-Ai Street in the north to Fu-Qian road in the South, including Butokuden, a historical site now is in Zhong-Yi Elementary School. After the war, it changed to Martyrs' Shrine in 1946, and the outer courtyard converted into Tainan Municipal High School in 1969. Zhong-Yi Elementary School renovated the Butokuden and excavated the Shrine's outer garden bridge's remains in 2005. The bridge is 6 feet wide and 15 cm thick. The granite chiseled surface and now preserved as a landscape bridge. Naming as "Cheng Kung Bridge" is because the Cheng Kung stream, a tributary of Fu'An creek stream, flowed through here and was inscribed by Yang De-Jun, the municipal middle school principal. Tainan Butokuden is the most massive existing in Taiwan, and it was to promote Bushido. There is a judo field on the west, a kendo field on the east, and a shrine facing the second floor's north entrance. It is now Zhong-Yi Elementary School Auditorium.