Taichung Downtown on Lunar New Year Day

On the corner of Ziyou Road Sec. 2 and Gongyuan Road in what used to be the
third floor of a McDonald's lies the church with my favorite group's name.

Go straight on Ziyou and turn left on Chengong Rd.
to Green Wash's oldest Japanese built bridge.

A holdout in the Ghost Building

This mostly abandoned building notoriously called the "Ghost Building" looks like it made moldy the sky and the bank of the wash. 

See the original bridge ornamental motif 

Painted relief of this manhole cover;
 the wash looks more like an ocean

Here's another owner who refuses to sell 
and let the city tear this eyesore down. 

The original lemon cake in 1964 copied but never equaled in taste and texture

The pipes lead Han River water under streets a mile and a half
at the start the re-exposed and refurbished wash.

Good looking open waffle sandwiches in Gong-yuan Yuan-ke, a former bank
 associated with it's sister fancy snack and chocolate place, a former doctor's office 

Choose your toppings on the ice cream sundae

Two beauties

Leona in the ice-cream store's third floor European room 

Stick-em up! 

Please don't shoot!

The old city hall still used by city government agencies

A trendy restaurant and art gallery, Rose Garden, built in 1911,
 the first built with steel girders in Taichung  across from the old city hall.

Let's hope this is the beginning of a complete downtown restoration.