Skinning Hut

    Skinning Hut locates near Longshan Temple. It’s one of Taipei’s oldest street. The buildings was constructed around 1850. In 1945 this area was reserved for elementary school, therefore, all the development was prohibited, therefore the street remain old style while the nearby area were being modernized. Later on Ministry of Education recognize the value of this old street, they announce the new protection plan for this area in 2003.

    They origin of the name “skinning hut” has three different version.

The first one says that there was a skinner store in this area. The second one says that they used to be tree bark removing station for imported Chinese Fir. The third one says the pronunciation of Chinese Skinning Hut"剝皮寮" is similar to the pronunciation of this place in Japanese.