Former British Consulate of Hakodate
The Former British Consulate of Hakodate, also officially known as the Opening-Port Memorial Hall and commonly called the Old British Consulate, is a historic house museum meant to preserve the now-defunct consulate of the United Kingdom to Hakodate, Japan, and memorialise the opening of Hokkaido to foreign trade.Photo: 663highland, CC BY 2.5.
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- Opening hours: 9:00 AM—7:00 PM
- Type: Museum
- Description: museum in Hakodate, Japan
- Also known as: “Old British Consulate of Hakodate”
- Address: 14, 函館市, 北海道
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Motomachi Park and Old Hakodate Public Hall.
Motomachi Park
Park
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Motomachi Park is situated 110 metres southwest of Former British Consulate of Hakodate.
Old Hakodate Public Hall
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Old Hakodate Public Hall is situated 180 metres southwest of Former British Consulate of Hakodate.
Hakodate Museum of Northern Peoples
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 Museum of Northern Peoples is situated 170 metres northeast of Former British Consulate of Hakodate.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hakodate and Hokuto.
Hakodate
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Hakodate is a port city in Southern Hokkaidō, Japan. Separated by the 20-km long Tsugaru Strait from Honshu, Japan's main island, the city has naturally been seen as an entrance to Hokkaido.
Hokuto
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Hokuto is a city in the center of the Oshima Subprefecture in Japan's northern island of Hokkaido. It serves as a bedroom community for Hakodate, to the east of the city.
Former British Consulate of Hakodate
- Categories: consulate, chancery, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Hokkaido, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
41.76598° or 41° 45′ 58″ northLongitude
140.71071° or 140° 42′ 39″ eastOpen location code
8RH2QP86+97OpenStreetMap ID
node 4591148625OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q22119962
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Korean—“Former British Consulate of Hakodate” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “函館市舊英國領事館”
- French: “Ancien consulat britannique de Hakodate”
- Japanese: “函館市 旧イギリス領事館”
- Japanese: “函館市旧イギリス領事館”
- Japanese: “開港ミュージアム”
- Korean: “하코다테시 구 영국 영사관”
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