Hakodate

This article covers the city of Hakodate. For the short-lived prefecture, see Hakodate Prefecture .

Hakodate-shi 函館 市
Geographical location in Japan
Region :	Hokkaidō
Prefecture :	Hokkaidō
Coordinates :	41 ° 46 '  N , 140 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 41 ° 46 '8 "  N , 140 ° 43' 44"  E
Basic data
Surface:	677.82 km²
Residents :	256,222 (September 30, 2019)
Population density :	378 inhabitants per km²
Community key :	01202-5
Postal code area :	040-0001-042-0957
Symbols
Flag / coat of arms:
Tree :	Japanese yew
Flower :	Rhododendron kaempferi var. Kaempferi
Bird :	Poecile varia varia
Fish :	Squid
town hall
Address :	Hakodate City Hall 4 - 13 , Shinonome-chō Hakodate -shi Hokkaidō  040-8666
Website URL:	http://www.city.hakodate.hokkaido.jp/
Location Hakodates in Hokkaido Prefecture

Hakodate ( Japanese 函館 市 , - shi ) is the third largest city on the northern main island of Hokkaidō in Japan and the administrative seat of the sub-prefecture of Oshima .

Hakodate is connected to the city of Aomori on Honshu , the main island of Japan , by the Seikan Tunnel .

The converter station of the HVDC Hokkaido-Honshu is located near Hakodate .

history

The city is one of the few Japanese settlements on Hokkaidō that did not emerge until the 19th century. A fortified trading post existed here as early as the 15th century.

Hakodate was one of five ports that were opened to foreign merchant ships at the end of the Edo period (1603-1867).

From December 1868 to June 1869, Hakodate was the capital of the short-lived Ezo Republic , the only republic on Japanese soil. In the bay of Hakodate from 4th to 10th May 1869 the naval battle of Hakodate took place.

On August 11, 1874, the German businessman Consul Ludwig Haber, Fritz Haber's uncle , was murdered by a samurai in a xenophobic act. His grave in Hakodate still exists.

On March 11, 2011, after the outbreak of the Tōhoku earthquake, all trains were stopped. 2.1 m high tsunami waves were observed that flooded the tourist attraction Bay area ( Japaneseベ イ エ リ ア).

Attractions

• Goryōkaku ( 五 稜 郭 ), the remains of the first modern fort in Japan, once the seat of government of the Republic of Ezo and now a park with an observation tower and museum.
• Cape Tachimachi ( 立 待 岬 )
• Mount Hakodate ( 函館 山 )
• Russian Orthodox Church in Hakodate , built in 1861

Town twinning

• Halifax , since 1982
• Lake Macquarie City , since 1992
• Vladivostok , since 1992
• Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk , since 1997
• Tianjin , since 2001
• Goyang , since 2011

traffic

Hakodate Airport is eight kilometers east of the city .

The Station Hakodate is the southern terminus of the direction in Sapporo leading Hakodate Main Line society JR Hokkaido . At Goryōkaku station further north, the Esashi line branches off to Kikonai . From 1988 Hakodate was connected to the main island of Honshu via the Seikan tunnel . The direct connection was discontinued in 2016 with the opening of the high-speed Hokkaidō-Shinkansen line ; Since then, long-distance traffic to the main island has been handled via the Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto train station, 18 km away .

Hakodate is served by the Hakodate-Esashi Highway, National Road 5 and National Roads 227, 228, 278, 279, 280 and 338. In addition to various bus routes, the Hakodate City Transport Authority also operates the two- line Hakodate tram .

sons and daughters of the town

• Tatsuya Futakami (1932-2016), Shogi player
• Ryōhei Hirose (1930–2008), composer
• Jūran Hisao (1902–1957), writer
• Okamoto Ippei (1886–1948), manga artist
• Kamei Katsuichirō (1907–1966), writer
• Hiroyuki Kiyokawa (born 1967), football player
• Shūhei Matsubara (* 1992), football player
• Mikio Taka (* 1978), artist

Neighboring cities and communities

• Hokuto
• Nanae
• Shikabe

Climate table

Hakodate
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     71   0 -7     59   1 -7     62   5 -3     77   11 2     72   16 7th     82   20th 11     114   23 16     158   26th 18th     176   22nd 13     100   16 6th     104   9 1     81   3 -4 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: wetterkontor.de

Monthly average temperatures and rainfall for Hakodate Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 0.1 0.6 4.5 11.2 16.4 19.5 23.2 25.5 22.0 16.3 9.3 3.1 O 12.7 Min. Temperature (° C) -7.4 -7.2 -3.4 2.0 6.8 11.4 16.0 18.1 13.1 6.2 0.7 -4.2 O 4.4 Precipitation ( mm ) 71 59 62 77 72 82 114 158 176 100 104 81 Σ 1,156 Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 3.4 4.1 5.3 6.2 6.6 5.7 4.7 4.9 5.3 5.5 3.7 2.8 O 4.9 Water temperature (° C) 5 4th 4th 6th 10 12 17th 20th 22nd 16 12 10 O 11.5 Humidity ( % ) 75 74 72 70 74 82 84 83 78 73 73 75 O 76.1 Source: wetterkontor.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Report on Haber's death
2. ↑ 東北 沖 大 地震 ： え り も で ３．５ メ ー ト ル 津 波 流 さ れ る 車 、 漁船 （そ の １） ／ 北海道 ( Memento from March 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), The earthquake in the high seas of Tōhoku: Erimo. Path and fishing boat in the Internet archive hit by a 3.5 meter high tsunami , Mainichi Shimbun (Japanese)
3. ↑ Trams in Hakodate on www.drehscheibe-online.de, January 10, 2016

Web links

Commons : Hakodate  - collection of images, videos and audio files