Kaohsiung’s “Ghost Attractions” – The Cijin 25 Ladies’ Cemetery Is the Most Alluring

Travel Center / Comprehensive Report

The Ghost Gate Opens on the First Day of the Seventh Lunar Month！ Here Are Kaohsiung’s “Ghost Attractions.” One of them, the “Cijin 25 Ladies’ Cemetery,” voted as one of Taiwan’s top 10 ghost spots by netizens, is now renamed the Memorial Park for Working Women, yet ghost stories continue to circulate, adding to its mystique. The Fengshan District Chenghuang Temple displays a striking plaque that reads “You Are Here,” reminding people to avoid evil deeds in life, for after death they must face judgment before the City God.

▲ The Fengshan Chenghuang Temple hangs a prominent “You Are Here” plaque. (Photo / fromthe Facebook fan page of the Tainan Cultural Heritage Preservation Association)

The “Opening of the Ghost Gate” marks the official start of Ghost Month. Kaohsiung’s famous 25 Ladies’ Cemetery has recently been voted by 120,000 netizens as one of Taiwan’s top 10 “spookiest places.” Originally, the cemetery was established to commemorate the tragic incident in September 1973, when 25 female laborers from Cijin District died in a ferry accident while en route to the Export Processing Zone.

After the accident, the local community built the 25 Ladies’ Tomb to honor these young women. However, numerous ghost stories have since emerged. The most notorious one claims that young unmarried men often experience unexplained bike crashes, engine failures, or other mishaps when passing by at night. There are even rumors of seeing ghostly women in white walking around at midnight. In 2008, on International Workers’ Memorial Day (April 28), the Kaohsiung City Government renamed the site the “Memorial Park for Working Women.”

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The Fengshan Chenghuang Temple was built in the 5th year of the Jiaqing reign during the Qing Dynasty (1800 AD). The temple’s eye-catching “You Are Here” plaque and the “Great Abacus” are its most unique cultural relics. The plaque symbolizes that everyone will eventually have to report to the City God, while the abacus represents how the deity calculates the merits and sins of each person’s life. Both serve as moral reminders to cultivate kindness and refrain from wrongdoing. With the Ghost Gate opening in July, these haunted sites paradoxically attract tourists, becoming unconventional yet popular destinations.