In tandem with the development of forestry, the sugar industry and the railroad, employee housing was built. Under the Japanese government's immigration policy, there were also opened up in Hualien "Japanese immigrant villages."
跟著林業、糖業、鐵路的發展，則有產業宿舍興建，還有在日本政府移民政策下，到花蓮闢墾的「日本移民村」，都可見到日式宿舍遺跡。