The area around this station was once just a small town on the plateau—until the railway came through in the closing years of the Qing dynasty. Taiwan's…
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The area around this station was once just a small town on the plateau—until the railway came through in the closing years of the Qing dynasty.
Taiwan's railway began under the Qing, when Liu Ming-chuan, the Governor of Taiwan, first laid its tracks. The line running from Taipei to Hsinchu passed through this place then known as Taoziyuan.
During the Japanese colonial period, when the Trunk Line linking north and south Taiwan was completed, Taoyuan found itself positioned on the route connecting Taipei with central and southern Taiwan.
After the war, especially through the 1960s and 70s, many factories were built in Taoyuan. Close to Taipei, with ample land, and near both port and airport, it was well suited for industry. Electronics, automobiles, textiles—the fields of the plateau gradually gave way to industrial parks.
And the factories drew people in. Young workers came from the south and east of Taiwan, and later, people began arriving from Southeast Asia as well.
Along the street in front of the station, old shops and new buildings stand side by side.
From the very day the railway first passed through, this city has continued to stand on the side that welcomes people in.
