New Taipei City 新北市

Beneath Taipei’s busiest suburb lies a renamed river, a demolished private fortress, a school built from a mountain view, and a garden that once sheltered refugees.

Beneath New Taipei’s Linkou New Town lies a 10,000-year-old skull, a hidden kamikaze airfield, a 1968 air disaster, and a temple that outlasted an empire.

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The Ketagalan language died here. Taiwan’s most famous ruin stood here. A president was born here. Sanzhi holds five hundred years of history that never quite finished.

Everyone comes to Tamsui for the sunset over the river. Almost no one notices that the same handful of hills has been consecrated, fought over, and physically rebuilt by five different faiths in four hundred years — each one certain it had the final word.

Walk through Tucheng, a New Taipei City district, with five historical stories exploring its prehistoric roots, frontier walls, and coal mining past.