Under the Japanese occupation there were no special restrictions in the area surrounding the Governor-General's Office, so in souvenir albums of the Taipei High School from the 1930s one can see group photos of the school's pupils taken on the steps outside the front of the building.
日據時代，由於總督府對於周邊並沒有特別管制，因此在一九三○年代的「台北高等學校」紀念冊上，還可以看到學生們在府前台階上合影留念。