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The Japanese-style Beku-chō Dormitory Complex in Taitung City is one of the most well-preserved historic Japanese official residences in Taiwan. Built in 1940, it originally served as housing for staff and faculty of the Taitung Girls' High School (now the National Taitung Senior Girls' High School), bearing witness to the crucial historical developments of Taitung during the Japanese colonial period. Covering an area of approximately 2.1 hectares, these buildings employ traditional Japanese wooden construction techniques, featuring refined layouts and elegant exteriors that vividly embody classical Japanese housing styles. They remained government-occupied housing post-World War II until 2007, when they were designated as historic architecture by Taitung County, becoming a precious cultural asset. Today, this cluster of historic buildings has been reborn with a renewed identity as "Machiya Posong: Bao Sang," a boutique hostel integrating single-townhouse architectural style and contemporary creative youth hostel spaces, infusing new life into the heritage buildings. The name "Bao Sang" is derived from the original Atayal name for old Taitung, meaning "a vast and fertile land suitable for settlement," symbolizing how this dormitory complex continues to welcome every traveler who arrives, despite enduring changes through time.