Located at the piedmont of Shoushan, Kaohsiung Wude Hall (the oldest surviving wude hall in Taiwan) was established by the Kaohsiung Branch of Dai Nippon Butoku Kai (“Greater Japan Martial Virtue Society”) in 1924 and consists of many zones such as kendo (“The Way of Sword”) and judo zones that serve as sites for the police and young students to practice kendo and judo. The Kaohsiung Wude Hall accommodates approximately 100 people and features a shrine at its center. Contrary to Japanese-style butokuden, Kaohsiung Wude Hall boasts both Japanese and Western architectural features. Its Eastern Asian gable roof is covered with tiles and supported by a Western steel truss system. By contrast, its imperial crown style entrance eaves were constructed using Tuscan order concepts. Its brick walls, built using Western masonry methods, contain arrow and target-shaped reliefs. In 2004, renovation of the Kaohsiung Wude Hall was completed, where the hall is now regularly used for education promotion activities such as prayer festivals, kendo conventions, and budō festivals, making it an important local cultural building in Hamasen.
鼓山／武德殿
武道在日本是非常受到重視的文化傳統，臺灣在日本時代由警界積極引入武道文化，並加以推廣發展，各地都陸續興建起「武德殿」這類武道設施。座倚壽山山麓的高雄武德殿，是由大日本武德會高雄支所創立，落成於1924年，另有「振武館」之稱。內部主要分為劍道區、柔道區，提供警察及青年學子修練柔道、劍道等，約可容納一百人，中央端部則特別設置神龕空間。
有別於完全和風的武德殿原型，高雄武德殿融入西洋的建築特色，屬於和洋折衷式樣之風格，入母屋式的鋪瓦屋頂由洋式鋼桁架系統支撐，唐博風的入口簷下則有托次坎柱式，而洋式砌法的磚牆上更有特別的箭及靶之浮雕裝飾。戰後武德殿曾由鼓山國小代為管理，充為教室及教師宿舍使用，爾後長期荒廢。這座國內現存最老的武德殿終在2004年修復完成，固定舉辦祈願祭、劍道大會、武德祭等教育推廣活動，為哈瑪星地區重要之地方文化館舍。