Get to know Sinsing District
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- Administrative area
- District · 區
- Part of
- Kaohsiung City
- Chinese name
- 新興區
- Local areas
- District guide
An adapted house
Hok House (鶴宮寓) occupies a building constructed in 1958 as an architect’s three-storey home. A fourth floor was added in the 1960s when it became Hegong Hotel (鶴宮大旅社). Its later conversion into accommodation and a café retained the entrance doors, terrazzo stairs and original interior layout.
Nanhua’s painted stories
Nanhua was nicknamed Women’s Street (女人街) for its clothing, bags, hats and accessories. A mural beside Sinsing Post Office (新興郵局), painted by Crazy Jason (瘋狂傑森), depicts a girl, carp, a yellow duck, kapok flowers and a leopard cat. Carp refer to the district’s earlier abundance of these fish; kapok is Kaohsiung’s city flower.
Sources for this guide
黃金年代的鶴宮寓 重塑大港埔回憶 - 高雄畫刊-高雄市政府新聞局 · Kaohsiung City Government Information Bureau
【202007城市快門】講故事的彩繪牆 - TAKAO 樂高雄 · Kaohsiung City Government Information Bureau
Original English written from the listed sources and checked sentence by sentence against quoted extracts by a separate reviewer. Updated 2026-09-27.
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Sinsing District 新興區
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Sources & geographic information
Administrative names and parent areas: Official geographic directory · Reference date 2026-09-06.
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