No one dares to walk through Tainan’s scary underpass — now 3D deer herds make it a hot spot

▲The Weimin Street underpass, which connects to the Governor's Residence, features artwork depicting Taiwan’s scenery from 1900. (Photo / Reporter Huang Kexiang)

Reported by You T-Ru / Tainan

Artistic creations rich in local stories and interactive, three-dimensional elements have appeared in an underpass in Tainan that no one dared to enter before. The Weimin Street underpass, which connects to the Governor's Residence, features artwork depicting Taiwan’s scenery from 1900. With 3D visual art, the space offers a fresh design that delicately portrays the Governor's Residence once located on the high southern bank of Deqing Creek, the habitat of sika deer herds, and elements of Tainan’s architecture.


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Once a long-abandoned, dim, damp, and cold space that even locals avoided, the Weimin Street underpass has gotten a makeover. Redeveloped and adopted by Gaoqing Development and its partners, the renovation echoes the historical age of the nearby Governor's Residence. French-trained artist Chang Hsin-Pi reimagined Taiwan’s 1900 landscape inside the underpass, incorporating 3D artistic styles to depict the Governor's Residence’s former location on the high southern bank of Deqing Creek, a space once teeming with sika deer, as well as classic Tainan architecture known as the “Phoenix City.”


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Stepping into the artistic underpass, visitors can experience a completely different atmosphere from the past and interact with the vivid deer and murals. The Weimin underpass has already sparked curiosity among local residents and young students in Tainan. Zeng Yi-Yin, deputy section chief of Gaoqing Development’s planning department, expressed hope that it will attract young crowds from the area in front of the train station to explore the underpass’s northern entrance, linking them to surrounding attractions around the train station and offering a new take on Tainan’s charm.