The only extant example today is the Taipei Guest House, the former official residence of the Japanese governor-general. By 1922 the Japanese population had outgrown the inner city and began spreading to new outlying areas to the east and south, now the Chungcheng and Ta-an districts. Here remain today the many Japanese-style houses we know so well, with their slanted, black-tiled roofs and their nailed shingles.
大正 10 年（1922 年），城內空間不足容納眾多的日本人，日本宿舍開始往城外的東、南邊新興區邁出，便在今天的中正區、大安區，留下許多日式斜屋頂，頂上覆著日本黑瓦，外牆上釘有魚鱗板，大家熟悉的日式宿舍。