Dinner: Kaohsiung Port Depot / Great Harbor Bridge / Echo Across the Harbor
Guests will be provided with maps (and assistants!) to explore Kaohsiung Port Depot and choose a restaurant to their liking. iPass cards will be provided with funds to pay for dinner.
TIPC has arranged for the Great Harbor Bridge to be turning at 7:00 pm. The return shuttle can be boarded in front of the City Suites Kaohsiung Chenai at 8:00 pm.
Kaohsiung Port Depot 410 comprises four repurposed warehouses, each with its own style. Warehouse 7 is for ladies’ fashion; Warehouse 8 is for gatherings and dining; Warehouse 9 focuses on sports and fashion; while Warehouse 10 houses a special exhibition of photographs of Kaohsiung’s harbor. Visitors can experience the historical textures of the port through these vintage images. Public art in the form of a bronze bell, set up in the square behind the warehouse, has become a popular spot for taking photos.
Kaohsiung Port Depot 410 is both a depiction of the lifestyle of the metropolitan city, and a place where visitors can experience a leisurely and laid-back atmosphere while immersed in breathtaking and expansive waterfront scenery. Everyone is welcome to tour the Port of Kaohsiung’s former warehouses and learn more about the city’s story.
Visitors can reach Kaohsiung Port Depot 410 and Kaohsiung Port Warehouse No.2 (KW2) by crossing the Great Harbor Bridge. This spectacular white bridge is both a stunning sight in itself, and a point where sightseers can pause and take in superb views of Kaohsiung’s harbor.
“Echo Across the Harbor” is located in Penglai Harbor. This public art brings historical soundscape of bells, whistles, and horns back to the harbor. It also provides a pleasant waterfront plaza and a new harbor life style for citizens and visitors. “Echo Across the Harbor” illustrates that the golden canopy is hung by huge cranes like before. The golden canopy imitates the most important product exported from the harbor, banana in bamboo baskets. A carillon of 37 bells and 1 swinging bell links with maritime culture . Music of bells echo across the harbor and the city, connect the past and the future, tie the Kaohsiung city back to the world. “Echo Across the Harbor” has 72 songs including popular songs like ode to Joy, für Elise, pomp and circumstance, doraemon no uta etc. The carillon plays a song hourly by rapping the bells to produce different scales.
