The 1937 Songshan Tobacco Factory was one of the largest industrial complexes in Japanese-era Taiwan, producing cigarettes for the colonial monopoly. The factory closed in 1998 and the buildings — broad single-storey ferro-concrete halls with double-pitched tiled roofs, set around a square of lawns and a long ornamental pond — have been adapted into a design and exhibition park.
The complex houses the Taiwan Design Museum, the well-curated Not Just Library, several galleries, a hotel, and a permanent line-up of design and craft shops. The 2014 Taipei Cultural and Creative Park building at the back, a curving pale-clad pavilion by Toyo Ito, is one of the city's most striking pieces of contemporary architecture. Free entry to the grounds; some exhibitions ticketed.