A century-plus of girls' education in Tainan.
National Tainan Girls' Senior High School opened on October 11, 1917 as the "Taiwan Governor-General's Tainan Girls' High School," one of the earliest public girls' schools established in southern Taiwan under Japanese rule. It was renamed twice more in the following years — becoming Tainan Prefectural Tainan Girls' High School in 1921 and Tainan Prefectural First Girls' High School in 1922. After 1945, the separate schools that had served Japanese and Taiwanese students were reorganized, and in 1947 they merged into the Taiwan Provincial Tainan Girls' Middle School. The school took its current national-level name in 2000. Today, over a century after its founding, it remains one of Taiwan's most prestigious public girls' senior high schools, and its original 1917 campus building is preserved as a protected historic structure.
國立臺南女子高級中學創校於1917年(大正6年)10月11日,初名「臺灣總督府臺南高等女學校」,是日治時期台灣南部最早設立的公立女子學校之一。其後歷經多次更名,1921年改稱臺南州立臺南高等女學校,1922年再改為臺南州立臺南第一高等女學校。戰後,原分設日籍、台籍學生就讀的姊妹校於1947年合併為「臺灣省立臺南女子中學」,2000年精省後改為現名「國立臺南女子高級中學」。歷經百餘年,南女中至今仍是台灣最負盛名的公立女子高中之一,其創校時期的校舍建築也被列為古蹟保存。
What makes this school worth knowing.
🏛️ A Protected Century-Old Campus
百年古蹟校舍
The school's original 1917 building carries its own heritage listing — one of the few senior-high campuses in Taiwan built entirely under Japanese rule and still in daily academic use today.
👘 One of Taiwan's Oldest Girls' Schools
台灣最早的女校之一
Founded in 1917, the school predates the ROC administration of Taiwan by nearly three decades, making it one of the very oldest continuously operating girls' senior highs on the island.
⛩️ Neighbor to the Koxinga Shrine
比鄰延平郡王祠
The campus sits in Junwang Li (郡王里), a neighborhood named for its historic Koxinga-worship traditions, placing the school within easy walking distance of the Koxinga Shrine.
🎓 A Century of Institutional Change
百年校名沿革
Renamed several times across the Japanese and postwar eras — from a school for Japanese students in 1917 to today's national academic senior high — the school's history traces Tainan's own educational transformation.
Inside Tainan's walled-city core.
The school sits inside Tainan's old walled-city core, just blocks from the Koxinga Shrine (延平郡王祠) that gives its home neighborhood, Junwang Li (郡王里), its name. Its century-plus history has run in parallel with the Ming-Zheng and Qing-era heritage sites that surround it — the same stretch of old Tainan that holds Chihkan Tower and the Confucius Temple. See the Tainan county page for more on the region.
Find the school.
No. 97, Datpu St., Zhongxi Dist., Tainan City 700-047, Taiwan
700-047臺南市中西區大埔街97號
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