Takao Railway Museum - Gushan District

Good place for weekend. Specially when you have family along. Also for tourist, connected by tram (light) rail station. Playing area for kids, kite flying. Exhibits old fashioned train engines. Also accessible are nearby places like shipping port museum.

All I can say is Taiwan loves their Trains... Well kept locomotive and it's stations, a great spot for old train lovers

The former freight yard now serves as a great park for several family activities like flying kites and existing as well as the terminus of the orange line (MRT) and green line (LRT).

The museum descends from the Kaohsiung Harbor Train Station, built during the Japanese period. The station was then the first railway station in Kaohsiung with the original name of Takow Station (Japanese: 打狗停車場). In 2003, the station building was classified as historical building by the Kaohsiung City Government. On 9 November 2008, the last train was pulled out from the station at 5.30 p.m. Once the station was closed, the government took over the station building and land on the southern part of the station. On 24 October 2010, the government authorized the Railway Culture Society to enter the station for the opening of the Takao Railway Museum.

This is the lesser of the two museums in the area. Still worth a visit as this is more historic, but very cool. Not much for kids. The admission is free at this museum. There is a huge train yard where kids can run. In the afternoons when there is more wind people will fly kites.

Fascinating train museum. Admission is free but it’s honestly worth donating to keep places like these going. On the outside they have old trains like any other train museum but what sets them apart are the hand written archival records and many artefacts.

Really exciting place to visit. A lot of fun for kids and adults. Maket just perfect, you easily can spend an hour watching trains moving around. They offer VR video about the history, very interesting. Small train trip is a fun, especially to see big boys and girls on this tiny model. Great installations outside. Take combo ticket, much cheaper. The only regretful point is lacking of information in English, but most important parts are duplicated, so it's ok

If you are already in the neighborhood of this railway museum, then it's worthy of making a stop to stroll through this tiny older building. It has preserved the original room arrangement well, the wooden counter, the bookcases, the VIP seating area the maps & photos on the walls and bulletin boards as they were like some 90 years ago. Can you imaging many merchants and people from all walks of life hustling and bustling through this tiny railroad station? To further relive that old scenes, there are a few old engines stationed on few abandoned railroad tracks with a backdrop of a modern transit railway running through every once in a while. You couldn't hear the sharp and loud whistle from those antique locomotives anymore, in stead you are hearing a mild ding-dong bell sound from the transit train when they're coming and leaving the track side platform. I noticed visitors that came here didn't show much interest in inside the station, they hurried out through the door to the old train station platform. Using those old engines as the background in their selfies was their main attraction. Perhaps I was there alone, so I spent time browsing inside to see what this train museum has on display. There was a 20 minutes constant running video on the history of this station and its neighborhood that I found it very informative. Surprisingly enough that I found that the staff on duty have no idea as to how and why the port of Kaohsiung was given the name Takao (打狗港) many decades ago. Perhaps, next time when you stop by this railroad museum, which is just outside one of the subway exits at Sizihwan Station (a very strange English spelling), I suggest you to spend half an hour or so checking out their displays and watch that video before you go out to the back taking selfies.