Taiwan POW Memorial and Peace Park (Kinkaseki POW Camp) — Attraction in New Taipei

This POW memorial pays tribute to the Allied POWs imprisoned on Taiwan during World War II. It is set in quiet surroundings - quite a moving experience to walk the park grounds and reflect on the stories and names you see on the Wall of Honour. Some names include Major Ben Wheeler (Canadian doctor at Kinasaeki camp who is the main subject of the 1981 documentary A War Story - available for free viewing on YouTube), Lt General Jonathan Wainwright, Lt General Arthur Percival and many others - soldiers, sailors, airmen of various nationalities.

To get here from Jiufen, take a bus that goes to Quanji Temple. Get off the bus and walk across to the parking lot. A flight of steps will lead you down - follow it and go down the flight of rainbow stairs. Head right and downwards an embankment and you will find the POW memorial park. Return the same way and be sure to depart before the last bus leaves for the day - no other form of transport is available here. Google Maps gives pretty good bus timing estimates.

Bring mosquito repellent to ward off the mosquitos that...

very rare number of people know this part of history, even local Taiwanese. This place is one of POW camp in Taiwan during WWII that Japanese prisoned solders from UK, ANZAC(Australia and New Zealand) fought for Pacific battles. Even now the place become a memorial park, still good to have a look. Quite Pity there has no any museum or places to share more information about it, only Gold Museum(黃金博物館) near by got...

As is often the case with Allied memorials, this one is very well kept, particularly considering the remote location.

Besides the statue of the two emaciated prisoners, there is also a wall with a very long list of all the Allied prisoners who died there.

To get to the memorial, requires a steep descent down the old town streets.

I was advised to go here by a Taiwanese guy that I was chatting to...