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November 1–15 · four stops · allow three to four hours
Northern Chiayi: giant clothes, timber, ceramic shards and upstairs light
Changrong Street → Experimental Wood Workshop → MUGN → Yongchang
Your planning day: Sun, Nov 1 is within the programme dates
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Why this order
Giant clothes change the scale of the street. Timber joints and ceramic shards draw you closer, before a tiny light-carrying train leads through a family's objects upstairs.
Plan it
Start around 13:00 on Changrong Street, reach the timber courtyard around 14:00 and MUGN around 15:00. Aim for Yongchang's 16:00 or 17:00 window. Upstairs opens for 45 minutes each hour, with last entry five minutes before the end; the grain shop's hours are different.
Allow 25 minutes for the 1.5 km walk from TRA Chiayi's front station. Start around Island Coffee and look along the street for the other four garments.
Stop 1
Giant clothes on Changrong Street
Five enormous garments hang outside five Changrong Street shops, with room for passers-by to add words. Loremipsum turns the street into an oversized clothesline. A screen-printing cart makes unscheduled appearances along the way.
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On the street November 1–15; visit in daylight. The individual shops keep different hours.Allow 25 minutes for the 1.5 km walk from TRA Chiayi's front station. Start around Island Coffee and look along the street for the other four garments.
Stop 2
Courtyard: 羅又睿's《木都之埕》
Wood Life at the Experimental Wood Workshop
Walk — About 680 m from Changrong Street; allow 12 minutes.
Three unfinished timber structures occupy the courtyard. Look at their joints, components and open spaces. Continue into Wood Life in the south building or the wood-object shop in the north building if time allows.
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Right now:November 1–15; the outdoor courtyard exhibition is open all day. Visit in daylight.Beimen, Alishan Forest Railway
Stop 3
MUGN: a walk on Yushan
Walk — About 1.2 km to MUGN; allow 20 minutes.
MUGN occupies the former framing shop of painter Lin Yu-shan's father. East Lin has given Yushan a mirrored face and two clay tigers. Frosted glass plates become white edelweiss flowers. The temple-roof craft of jiannian has come down to café-table height.
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Right now:November 1–15, 12:30–18:00; closed November 2, 3, 9 and 10. Separately booked events follow their session times.Allow 20 minutes for the 1.2 km walk from TRA Chiayi's front station.
Stop 4
Yongchang: a family landscape
Walk — About 320 m to Yongchang; allow six minutes.
Above the grain shop, a family living room and bedroom become the setting for a miniature train carrying light among furniture and household objects. Artist CHANG, PO-CHIEH works with 董耀鴻; third-generation proprietor 董建志 narrates the family's story in Taigi.
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Right now:November 1–15, except November 8. Forty-five-minute windows start hourly from 13:00 to 19:00; last entry five minutes before each window ends. Final window ends 19:45.Allow 17 minutes for the 1 km walk from TRA Chiayi's front station. Follow exhibition signs upstairs from the shop.
