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Hakodate
The jagged active volcano that towers over Onuma's lakes, an icon of southern Hokkaido.
The glittering hourglass-shaped panorama from Mount Hakodate's summit is ranked among Japan's three greatest night views.
Japan's first Western-style star fort, a five-pointed moated citadel that became the last stand of the Boshin War.
A hillside quarter of steep cobbled slopes, Western churches and old consulates from Hakodate's era as a treaty port.
Restored Meiji-era waterfront warehouses now filled with boutiques, cafes, a beer hall and harbor cruises.
A bustling seafood market beside the station where you can catch your own squid and eat the freshest kaisendon rice bowls.
Japan's first Russian Orthodox church, a white-walled, green-domed landmark nicknamed for its chiming bells.
An ornate 1910 blue-and-yellow colonial hall crowning Motomachi, a designated Important Cultural Property.
Hakodate's seaside hot-spring resort district, one of Hokkaido's oldest, with public footbaths and bathing monkeys nearby.
A 107-metre observation tower giving the only true bird's-eye view of Goryokaku's five-pointed star fort.
A serene lake district of islet-dotted waters beneath the rugged volcano Mount Komagatake, easily reached by JR from Hakodate.
A windswept cliff cape at the southern tip of Hakodate with sweeping views over the Tsugaru Strait.
Japan's first convent for Trappistine nuns, a serene brick cloister known for its handmade sweets.
A hillside cemetery for 19th-century foreign residents, overlooking the sea on Motomachi's western edge.
Hakodate's beloved local burger chain, famous for its Chinese Chicken Burger and eccentric decor.
One of Japan's oldest public parks, a hillside green space above Motomachi famed for spring blossom.
A Gothic Catholic church with a landmark spire, part of Motomachi's iconic hillside cluster of churches.
Ethnographic museum of the Ainu and northern peoples, set in an elegant 1926 former Bank of Japan branch in Motomachi.
Prefectural art museum near Goryokaku, strong on southern Hokkaido painters and East Asian calligraphy.
Museum of writers tied to Hakodate, centred on the beloved poet Ishikawa Takuboku, in a period bay-area building.
The city's historic municipal museum of local history and natural science, set inside leafy Hakodate Park.
Local-history museum in an 1880 fireproof former Western-goods store, showcasing everyday life in old Hakodate.
Hakodate's guardian Hachiman shrine, reached by a long stone stairway on the wooded eastern slope of Mount Hakodate.
Japan's first reinforced-concrete temple, a 1915 landmark on the Motomachi slopes with a vast black-tiled roof.
