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The Hsinchu Taiwan Pavilion Expo Park () was a pavilion in East District,
Hsinchu City Hsinchu (, Chinese: 新竹, Pinyin: ''Xīnzhú'', Wade–Giles: ''Hsin¹-chu²'') is a city located in northwestern Taiwan. It is the most populous city in Taiwan Province not among the special municipalities, with estimated 450,655 inhabi ...
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Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
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History

The pavilion used to be the Taiwan Pavilion at
Expo 2010 Shanghai China Expo 2010, officially the Expo 2010 Shanghai China, was held on both banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China, from 1 May to 31 October 2010. It was a major World Expo registered by the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), in the tr ...
in
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in April–October 2010. It was moved and reopened in
Hsinchu City Hsinchu (, Chinese: 新竹, Pinyin: ''Xīnzhú'', Wade–Giles: ''Hsin¹-chu²'') is a city located in northwestern Taiwan. It is the most populous city in Taiwan Province not among the special municipalities, with estimated 450,655 inhabi ...
on 21 February 2013. Afterwards, the
Hsinchu City Government The Hsinchu City Government (HCCG; ) is the municipal government of Hsinchu City, Taiwan. History After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in October 1945, the Hsinchu Prefecture Caretaker Commission was established on ...
purchased the pavilion at a cost of more than NT$450 million. The building is now closed.


Architecture

The pavilion resembled a traditional sky lantern with a height of four stories. It consisted of City Theme Hall, Sky Lantern Platform and Sky Theater.


See also

* List of tourist attractions in Taiwan


References

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