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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: “Hokodate” and “Khakodate”
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include 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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Hakodate City Museum of Northern Peoples first opened as the Hakodate City Museum of Northern Peoples and Ishikawa Takuboku in Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1989.

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
United Nations Location Code
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”
  • Arabic: “هاكوداتي”
  • Armenian: “Հակոդատե”
  • Asturian: “Hakodate”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hakodate”
  • Basque: “Hakodate”
  • Bavarian: “Hakodate”
  • Belarusian: “Хакадатэ”
  • Bengali: “হাকুডেইট”
  • Bulgarian: “Хакодате”
  • Catalan: “Hakodate”
  • Cebuano: “Hakodate”
  • Chechen: “Хакодате”
  • Chinese: “Hakodate-chhī”
  • Chinese: “函館”
  • Chinese: “函館市”
  • Chinese: “函馆”
  • Chinese: “函馆市”
  • Chinese: “箱館”
  • 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: “函館区”
  • Japanese: “函館市”
  • Japanese: “箱館”
  • Kannada: “ಹಕೊಡೇಟ್”
  • Korean: “하코다테 시”
  • Korean: “하코다테”
  • Korean: “하코다테시”
  • Korean: “함관”
  • Korean: “함관시”
  • 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”
  • Russian: “Хакодатэ”
  • Scots: “Hakodate, Hokkaido”
  • Scots: “Hakodate”
  • Serbian: “Хакодате”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hakodate”
  • Sinhala: “හකොඩටේ”
  • Slovak: “Hakodate”
  • Slovenian: “Hakodate”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هاکوداته”
  • Spanish: “Hakodate Hokkaido”
  • Spanish: “Hakodate Hokkaidō”
  • Spanish: “Hakodate”
  • Swedish: “Hakodate”
  • Tagalog: “Hakodate”
  • Tajik: “Ҳакодате”
  • Tamil: “ஆக்கோடேத்”
  • Tamil: “ஹக்கூடாதே”
  • 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”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Hakodate”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hakodate, Hokkaidō”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hakodate”
  • Wu Chinese: “函馆市”
  • Yue Chinese: “Hakodate”
  • Yue Chinese: “函館”
  • Yue Chinese: “函館市”

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