Hakodate [city] - Hakodate

Japanese: 函館[市] - はこだて

A city in southwest Hokkaido. Established as a city in 1922. Location of the Oshima Comprehensive Development Bureau. Occupying most of the Kameda Peninsula, it is a port city facing the Tsugaru Strait and developed as the gateway to Hokkaido, where the Seikan Ferry came and went, but the ferry was discontinued in 1988 when the Seikan Tunnel was opened. Since then, it has been connected to Honshu by rail, and is the starting point of the Hakodate Main Line and the Dounan Isaribi Railway. Formerly written as Hakodate, it became an open port at the end of the Edo period, and until the mid-Meiji period, it was the only commercial port in Hokkaido, with its economic sphere extending to the entire prefecture. There are factories for shipbuilding, fishing machinery, net making, refrigeration, chemical fertilizers, and seafood processing. Squid fishing is popular offshore, and the city produces a lot of dried squid. The city developed on a sandbar that connects to Mount Hakodate on the land-tied island, known for its beautiful night view. Fishery-related factories and warehouses line the southern shore of Tomoe Bay, and residential areas spread to the north. It is home to Goryokaku, Yunokawa Onsen, the Trappistine Monastery, and Mt. Esan. There are flights to various parts of Japan from the JR Hakodate Main Line, the Dounan Isaribi Railway, National Route 5, Route 227, Route 228, Route 278, and Hakodate Airport, and ferry boats from Hakodate Port to Aomori and Oma. A shuttle train runs to Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto Station on the Hokkaido Shinkansen, which opened in March 2016. In December 2004, Toi-cho, Esan-cho, Tonohokke-mura, and Minamikayabe-cho, Kameda-gun, were incorporated into the city. The city sustained damage during the Great East Japan Earthquake. 677.86 ^km2 . 279,127 people (2010).
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北海道南西部の市。1922年市制。渡島(おしま)総合振興局所在地。亀田半島の大部分を占め，津軽海峡に面する港湾都市で，青函連絡船が出入する北海道の玄関口として発展してきたが，1988年青函トンネルが開通して連絡船は廃止された。以来本州とは鉄道で結ばれ，函館本線，道南いさりび鉄道の起点をなす。かつては箱館と書かれ，江戸時代の末期には開港場となり，明治中期までは道唯一の商港として経済圏は全道に及んだ。造船，漁業機械，製網，冷蔵，化学肥料，水産加工の工場がある。沖合はイカ漁が盛んで，するめを多産。市街地は美しい夜景で知られる陸繋(りくけい)島の函館山をつなぐ砂州上に発達，巴湾南岸に水産関係の工場や倉庫が並び，住宅地は北部へ広がる。五稜郭，湯の川温泉，トラピスチヌ大修道院，恵山がある。JR函館本線，道南いさりび鉄道，国道５号線，227号線，228号線，278号線，函館空港からは国内各地への便があり，また函館港から青森，大間へフェリーボートが通じる。2016年３月に開業した北海道新幹線の新函館北斗駅まで，シャトル列車を運行。2004年12月亀田郡戸井町，恵山町，椴法華村，茅部郡南茅部町を編入。東日本大震災で，市内において被害が発生。677.86km²。27万9127人（2010）。
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