During Qing times, train station warehouses were strategic military entrepots; during the Japanese occupation they were used as storage facilities by the sugar, salt, and forestry industries; and after the war they were used to accommodate rail passengers on their way south or north. Although they were located in urban centers with good communication links, these warehouses stopped being used for freight storage many years ago.
這些在清代牽動軍事要塞佈局，在日據時代時肩負糖、鹽、林業運輸，又在光復後看著人們南來北往的鐵道倉庫，儘管位於交通方便的市中心，卻早已失去運轉功能。