Other places in Taiwan have stone buildings, but modernization is quickly taking its toll, and Wu T'ai remains the only town composed completely of stone houses.
排灣族分佈的台東縣太麻里，屏東縣瑪家、來義、春日、泰武；和魯凱族分佈的大武也都以石板屋為傳統住宅，但現在幾乎都已被現代建材取代，唯霧台保存得最完整，且與雕刻並列為該鄉二大特色。