Eternal Golden Castle (Chinese: 億載金城), alternatively but less well known as Erkunshen Battery (二鯤鯓砲台), is a defensive castle in Anping (安平) District, Tainan (臺南) City, Taiwan. The castle has over 100 years of history, it is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Tainan.
The walls and most of Eternal Golden Castle are still well preserved, you can hire a boat and row around.
The castle was built in 1874 and completed in 1876 by the famous Qing (清) Dynasty’s official Shen Baozhen (沈葆楨) in order to safeguard the coast and to defend Taiwan against Japanese invasions.
When Taiwan was ceded to the Empire of Japan by the Qing in 1895, the Taiwanese people fought against the invading Japanese battleships from this fortress.
During the Russo-Japanese War, the imperial Japanese government sold some of the fort's cannons, thus its military value was completely lost. The cannons we seen nowadays are only replicas.
Eternal Golden Castle has cannon shows on Saturday and Sunday. The staff will dress up like soldiers in the Qing Dynasty, imitating the old way to attack the enemy.
