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A single singer, carrying out a revival plan of an old lodging house. Getting lost is the beginning of a journey. Nestled in a secluded alley in Beitu Hot Spring Road, where cars can't easily drive in, a group of art and culture enthusiasts who love to travel and cherish Taiwan's land unexpectedly discovered a three-story, more than half-a-century-old guesthouse, hidden among the weathered and winding alleys, surrounded by aged households. On clear days, neighbors' windows display clothes. Quietly serene, it's hard to believe it's only a five-minute walk to the metro station. Once the most illustrious hot spring route in Beitu, renamed for its heyday when numerous hot spring inns lined both sides, the Bingcheng Guesthouse opened over five decades ago, witnessing a more than half-a-century of the hot spring road's elegance. The Solo Singer team decided to launch this revival initiative focusing on space preservation and creative reinvention, connecting travel with art, design, and lifestyle innovation. The Solo Singer team includes hotel operators, cultural and artistic administrators, curators, writers, designers, and cultural historians from diverse professional backgrounds, who after exploring many old and new cities globally, realized the decline of Taiwan's traditional guesthouses and aspired to do something meaningful to preserve the local, gradually fading culture. Sympathizing with the diminishing old guesthouses, these young individuals from varied backgrounds joined forces with the former owner of Bingcheng Guesthouse, taking over the business and investing their own funds into reviving the aging accommodation. After half a year of restoration and transformation, they gradually brought the plan to life, integrating the team's cultural promotion and operational experience, transforming the aged guesthouse into a cultural lodging establishment.