The Jenn Lann Temple in Dajia, about thirty kilometres north of central Taichung, is the most important Mazu temple in central Taiwan and one of the busiest religious sites in the country. The current building is mostly twentieth-century reconstruction of a temple founded in 1730, with a heavily decorated facade and the standard Mazu interior arrangement.
For most of the year it is a steady working temple. For the nine days of the spring Mazu pilgrimage (third lunar month — usually April), it is the centre of a moving phenomenon that has to be seen in person to understand. Reachable by TRA train from Taichung Station to Dajia, then a short walk.