The base for the Japanese push southward Eighty years ago, nothing stood on this three and-a-half-hectare site in the center of old Taipei at the crossroads of North Gate Street (now Yenping North Road), East Gate Street (Jen-ai Road and Hsinyi Road), South Gate Street (Nanchang Road) and West Gate Street (Changsha Street) --except the ancestral shrines of the Lin and Chen clans.
日本的南進基地八十多年前，這片佔有一萬七百坪的土地，正是北門街（延平北路）、東門街（仁愛路及信義路）、南門街（南昌路）與西門街（長沙街）的交會口，為舊台北城的中心，除了林家和陳家的宗祠外，鄰近是空曠的田地。