After the Meiji restoration, Japan pursued a path of westernization. Taiwan, under Japanese rule, was no exception. Almost all the public construction at that time was the style of the later period of the European Renaissance.
「明治維新」後日本走西化的路，受日本統治的台灣也不例外，當時幾乎所有的公共建築，都是歐洲文藝復興建築的後期形式。