But, says Lin Jinkun, Fenqihu just wouldn't be the same without the Alishan railway: "Without the railroad there would be no Fenqihu; without Fenqihu where it is Alishan would never have been able to develop as it has."
但林金坤說，奮起湖不能沒有阿里山鐵路，「有阿里山鐵路才有奮起湖；有奮起湖才有阿里山。」