Five years ago, when a "Save Tihua Street" movement was started in cultural circles, a Japanese consortium reportedly planned on purchasing the street's building facades at great expense and reconstructing them back in Japan, but the plan was scrapped when opinion in Taiwan came out against it.
五年前文化界發起「搶救迪化街」運動時，一度傳出日本某財團準備在迪化街拆除後，大手筆地將立面建材買回去重建，後來因為國內輿論反對，方才作罷。