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Yixiong Park is located near Taipei Station in Taipei City, Taiwan, and is also known as the Sun Yat-sen Historical Memorial Hall. This small park was built to commemorate Sun Yat-sen. The Republic of China chose this place as one of the parks to honor its national father, mainly because this site was the ryokan where Sun Yat-sen stayed when he came to Taiwan in 1913. This ryokan was also the place where the then Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan, Sakuma Samata, met with Sun Yat-sen to discuss political affairs. The current address is No. 46, Section 1, Zhongshan North Road, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City. It is located north of Minsheng Avenue, east of Zhongshan North Road, and west of Taipei Station. Yixiong Park covers an area of about 3,025 square meters, with the main building in the park being a "Ume no Yashiki" (Ume House) of approximately 50 tsubo. Named after the plum trees planted in the garden, the Ume House was built in 1900 and was originally a ryokan run by the Japanese, Yamazumi Masakichi. The Ume House was a famous high-class ryokan in the Japanese colonial era, located in Beimen Town. It was a gathering place for the Governor-General of Taiwan, business tycoons, and social celebrities, and geishas were also invited to entertain guests. This ryokan is an rectangular-style Japanese building with a roof covered in traditional dark black ideal tiles. It is said that the ryokan once used performances by the Kavalan geishas to attract tourists. The Ume House not only once hosted notable political figures such as Sun Yat-sen and Hu Hanmin in the early 20th century. In 1907, the famous director Takamatsu Hoshio was commissioned by the Governor-General's Office to shoot the film "Introduction to Taiwan's Reality," and the Ume House's performance by the Kavalan people impersonating Japanese geishas was listed as one of the Twenty Scenic Views of Taiwan.