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Hakodate Hachimangu
Southern Hokkaido was tied to Honshu early on by the kitamaebune trade and the herring fishery. The shrine's history follows that.
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Hokkaido Toshogu
A Toshogu built by the Hakodate magistrate's office to display the authority of the shogunate.
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Yamanoue Daijingu
Halfway up Mount Hakodate. Sakamoto Ryoma's cousin Sawabe Takuma once served here as chief priest.
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Mt. Hakodate
The sea presses in from both sides, and the land narrows into an hourglass of light.
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Hokkaido Hakodate Museum of Art
Unusual in collecting calligraphy as its central pillar, around Ogitei Kaneko, who founded modern verse calligraphy.
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Hakodate City Museum
One of the oldest museums in Japan, holding what gathered in this treaty port and the Ainu craft of southern Hokkaido.
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Former Hakodate Public Hall
A timber Western hall on the slope above the port; its original furniture and blue-and-yellow colour scheme show what the trade was worth.
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Hakodate City Museum of Northern Peoples
In a former Bank of Japan branch, holding a major Ainu collection strong in attus, the cloth woven from tree bark.
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Hakodate Orthodox Church
The birthplace of Japanese Orthodoxy: white walls, green domes and the icons inside, all designated together.
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Motomachi Catholic Church
A Gothic church whose altar was a gift from Pope Benedict XV, on a slope where Orthodox, Anglican and Catholic churches stand together.