01202 ／ はこだてし
HokkaidoA hollow national treasure from a field.
Hollow Dogu, Chobonaino Site01 ／ Excavated coins
In 1968, road widening near the Shinori fort site uncovered three large jars of coins. The city says there were over 380,000, while the national designation records 374,435. The fort, ringed by earthworks and a dry moat, covers about 4,100 m² and is a National Historic Site.
02 ／ Motomachi-Suehirocho
Motomachi-Suehirocho, selected in 1989 as an Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings, is a port town opened in 1859 as a trading port together with Nagasaki and Yokohama. Rebuilt after a great fire in the Meiji era, it holds Japanese, Western and mixed-style townhouses and religious buildings. Hachimanzaka, a slope running down to the sea, is in Suehirocho.
03 ／ Kosetsuen
The Former Iwafune Garden (Kosetsuen) is a landscape garden built from around 1898 as the villa of a leading local merchant, and was designated a national Place of Scenic Beauty in 2001. It has a shoin-style garden pavilion and a stream; the city's tourism site calls it the only nationally designated garden in Hokkaido.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
Now (shot June 2024)Shot 1974–78
Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（全国最新写真（シームレス）／国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））
Living here
The city's guide to the main building (updated 9 March 2026) says to get off at Hakodate City Hall bus stop on the Hakodate Bus and walk one minute, or at City Hall tram stop and walk five minutes. The gateway station is Hakodate Station.
−5.6% since 2015
294,264 → 251,084
122.81km² of it habitable
2024
2.1 people per household
2020
National average 60,630 yen
2023
8.9 per 10,000 people
2023
Population from 2005 onward (municipal boundary changed).2004-12-01 に合併。2005年調査から市域が変わっている。
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
Shape
North to south
33.3km
Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.
See the town as it is now.
Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)
If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.
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