Zhutian Elementary School

Zhutian Elementary traces its roots to 1909, when it began as the "Dunwu Branch" of Neipu Public School, becoming independent as Dunwu Public School in 1916, renamed Zhutian Public School in 1921, and taking the name Zhutian National School in 1941. Today the school serves around 150 students and 15 teachers, and its campus is unusual among Taiwanese elementary schools for openly preserving a piece of wartime history: a torii gate inscribed "Friendship Park" and a stone monument reading "Taiwan-Japan Friendship," commemorating the story of "Snow Grandma" (雪婆婆), a Japanese woman whose husband died of malaria at the wartime field hospital that once stood on this very site.

竹田國小可追溯至1909年，最初是內埔公學校的「頓物分校」，1916年（大正5年）獨立設校為頓物公學校，1921年更名竹田公學校，1941年（昭和16年）改稱竹田國民學校。截至2023年底，學校約有153名學生與15位教師。校園內至今保留著一座刻有「友誼公園」字樣的鳥居，以及一塊「台日友好」石碑，紀念「雪婆婆」（本名雪谷雪）的故事——她的丈夫二戰時被徵召來台，最終因瘧疾病逝於當年設在此地的竹田野戰醫院，也就是今日竹田國小的校地。