Taiwan Sugar Museum, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
4.0 (184 reviews) Spent < 1 hour Ranking #1 in Qiaotou Speciality Museums
Disused factory with lots of things to do
It is a disused factory now turned into a museum. You get to understand how the sugarcane is transported, processed and made into sugar. This original site was formerly a sugarcane plantation. Now there are old trains for display. You can also rent a bicycle or 4 wheeler to move around as the place is huge. There is underground tunnel, a pig museum, a children's maze with a lot of interesting metal structures.
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No.24 Tangchang Road, Qiaonan Vil., Qiaotou District, Qiaotou, Kaohsiung 825 Taiwan
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4.0 based on (184 reviews)
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44419Gulliver 5:00 PM Sep 12, 2013
An interesting couple of hours
Part of what I liked about the Sugar Museum was the ride on the train out to the mill. It has its own stop. This gave us a little view of the countryside in daylight. The museum is free. It is a self-guided tour. There are whimsical sculptures of animals and fantastic creatures made form old machine parts in several locations. There are several steam and diesel locomotives and cars that were used to haul cane from the fields to the mill. you can see a small stand of sugar cane to show what it looks like. The mill building itself is a bit haunting. The mill operated from 1902-1999. It's like they just walked away from it, although I'm sure it was cleaned up a lot. The access to see the equipment is pretty easy. There are English and Chinese signs telling about the sugar making process although they are too brief and suffer some from awkward translation. I'm an engineer and still had some difficulty following what they were saying. You can also see the mill office building and the superintendent's residence from the outside. After waking around for a while we treated ourselves to an ice cream even though it was not lunch time yet. It was warm. Walking back to the train station we passed buildings that looked like they might have been worker housing, but we didn't see any signs explaining. Overall it's a pleasant jaunt to the country to e see a piece of history and understand Taiwan a bit better. It could be done better but we enjoyed it.
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4Ken 5:00 PM Oct 5, 2016
take a tour around the abandoned sugar factory
the entire factory is pretty huge!! i would strongly recommend you to rent a bicycle when you exit the ciaotou sugar factory mrt. then cycle around the sugar factory. i personally did not like the museum because the texts are written in traditional mandarin chinese. prefer to read them in english. and because of the small crowd that this museum attracts, it is not economical for them to keep the air conditioning running. so after cycling under the hot sun for a long period of time, its a torture to stay within the museum without air con and pretty poor ventilation. but i do love the sugar factory as a whole though. just pretty disappointed with the museum. and a drum assembly actually hold its performance within the sugar factory as well. quite iconic though their performance.
