Hakodate

Hakodate is a port city in Southern , . Separated by the 20-km long Tsugaru Strait from , Japan's main island, the city has naturally been seen as an entrance to Hokkaido.
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  • Type: City with 251,000 residents
  • Description: city in Hokkaido, Japan
  • Also known as: “Hakodate Hokkaido”, “Hakodate Hokkaidō”, “Hokodate”, “Khakodate”, “Thành phố Hakodate”, “هاكوداتي”, “ஹக்கூடாதே”, “하코다테”, “함관”, “함관시”, “函館区”, “函馆”, and “箱館”
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Hakodate Station and Holy Resurrection Orthodox Church.

Railway station
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is a railway station on the Hakodate Main Line in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan, operated by the Hokkaido Railway Company.

Church
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of Hakodate is a Japanese Orthodox Church in the city of Hakodate, , . The first purpose-built Orthodox Christian church to open in Japan was the wooden Russian Consulate chapel of the Resurrection of Christ, in Hakodate, Hokkaido, consecrated in October 1860.

Museum
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Mashu Maru was a Tsugaru Maru-class ferry operated by JNR, and shortly, JR Hokkaido, before finally being taken out of service on March 13, 1988 with the opening of the undersea Seikan Tunnel.

Hakodate

Latitude
41.7688° or 41° 46′ 8″ north
Longitude
140.729° or 140° 43′ 44″ east
Population
251,000
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
IATA airport code
HKD
UN/LOCODE
JP HKD
Open location code
8RH2QP9H+GJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3229063363
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2130188
Wiki­data ID
Q26418
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Hakodate” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هاكوداته، هوكايدو”
  • Arabic: “هاكوداته”
  • Armenian: “Հակոդատե”
  • Asturian: “Hakodate”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hakodate”
  • Basque: “Hakodate”
  • Bavarian: “Hakodate”
  • Belarusian: “Хакадатэ”
  • Bengali: “হাকুডেইট”
  • Bulgarian: “Хакодате”
  • Burmese: “ဟခိုဒတဲမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Hakodate”
  • Cebuano: “Hakodate”
  • Chechen: “Хакодате”
  • Chinese: “函館市”
  • Chinese: “函馆市”
  • Czech: “Hakodate”
  • Danish: “Hakodate”
  • Dutch: “Hakodate”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هاكوداته”
  • Esperanto: “Hakodate”
  • Estonian: “Hakodate”
  • Finnish: “Hakodate”
  • French: “Hakodate”
  • Galician: “Hakodate”
  • Georgian: “ჰაკოდატე”
  • German: “Hakodate”
  • Greek: “Χακοντάτε”
  • Gujarati: “હકોડેટ”
  • Hausa: “Hakodate”
  • Hebrew: “הקודאטה”
  • Hindi: “हाकोदाते”
  • Hungarian: “Hakodate”
  • Ido: “Hakodate, Hokkaido”
  • Ido: “Hakodate”
  • Indonesian: “Hakodate, Hokkaido”
  • Indonesian: “Hakodate”
  • Irish: “Hakodate”
  • Italian: “Hakodate”
  • Japanese: “Hakodate-shi”
  • Japanese: “はこだてし”
  • Japanese: “函館”
  • Japanese: “函館市”
  • Kannada: “ಹಕೊಡೇಟ್”
  • Korean: “하코다테 시”
  • Korean: “하코다테시”
  • Latvian: “Hakodate”
  • Literary Chinese: “函館市”
  • Lithuanian: “Hakodatė”
  • Malagasy: “Hakodate”
  • Malay: “Hakodate”
  • Maltese: “Hakodate”
  • Marathi: “हकोदेट”
  • Mazanderani: “هاکوداته، هوکایدو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hakodate-chhī”
  • Moksha: “Хакодатэ”
  • Mongolian: “Хакодатэ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hakodate”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hakodate”
  • Norwegian: “Hakodate”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hakodate”
  • Ossetian: “Хакодате”
  • Pampanga: “Hakodate, Hokkaidō”
  • Pampanga: “Hakodate”
  • Persian: “هاکوداته، هوکایدو”
  • Persian: “هاکوداته”
  • Polish: “Hakodate”
  • Portuguese: “Hakodate”
  • Romanian: “Hakodate”
  • Russian: “Хакодате”
  • Scots: “Hakodate, Hokkaido”
  • Scots: “Hakodate”
  • Serbian: “Хакодате”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hakodate”
  • Sinhala: “හකොඩටේ”
  • Slovak: “Hakodate”
  • Slovenian: “Hakodate”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هاکوداته”
  • Spanish: “Hakodate”
  • Swedish: “Hakodate”
  • Tagalog: “Hakodate”
  • Tajik: “Ҳакодате”
  • Tamil: “ஆக்கோடேத்”
  • Tatar: “Хакодате”
  • Tatar: “Һакодате”
  • Telugu: “హకోడతే”
  • Thai: “ฮะโกะดะเตะ”
  • Thai: “ฮาโกดาเตะ”
  • Tumbuka: “Hakodate”
  • Turkish: “Hakodate”
  • Ukrainian: “Хакодате”
  • Urdu: “ہاکوداتے، ہوکائیدو”
  • Uzbek: “Hakodate”
  • Venetian: “Hakodate”
  • Vietnamese: “Hakodate”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hakodate, Hokkaidō”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hakodate”
  • Wu Chinese: “函馆市”
  • Yue Chinese: “函館”

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