Songshan Creative Park is located in the Xinyi District of Taipei City, covering an area of 6.6 hectares, built in 1937. It was originally called the "Taiwan Governor-General's Office of Monopoly Songshan Tobacco Factory," and it was a pioneer of modern industrial buildings in Taiwan, as well as the first professional cigarette factory.
Its architectural style belongs to the "Japanese early modernism," with a simple and elegant form. The tiles, glass and copper nails are meticulously crafted, and it is considered a model of factories at that time. After the war in 1945, the Taiwan Provincial Monopoly Bureau took over, and it was renamed the "Taiwan Provincial Monopoly Bureau Songshan Tobacco Factory." In 1998, due to urban space planning, the monopoly reform, and a decrease in demand, it was shut down and merged with the Taipei Tobacco Factory, officially entering history.
In 2001, the Taipei City Government designated it as the 99th city-recognized cultural heritage. The park is planned as: city-recognized cultural heritage (office buildings, warehouses 1-5, cigarette manufacturing plant, boiler room), historical buildings (inspection room, mechanical repair shop, nursery), and special buildings (Baroque garden, ecological landscape pool, bathhouse, multi-functional exhibition hall).
In recent years, to revitalize the park's space, it has combined art, cultural creativity, design and other exhibitions. It has cooperated with the Taiwan Creative Design Center to set up the "Taiwan Design Museum," and has combined with well-known domestic glass workshops to launch "Koyama Hall" with glass art. It also has a light meal restaurant (located in the mechanical repair shop), upgrading the park into a base for design and cultural creativity industries.