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Focusing on the Ainu people who are deeply related to Hokkaido, we introduce the life and culture of the northern peoples. It displays materials collected by the former collection of the Hakodate Museum, as well as by the authority on archeology and folklore that Hakodate was born, Mr. Hashi Baba and Mr. Sakuemon Kodama. The exhibition includes costumes and living tools with traditional pattern embroidery and sculptures, as well as the Sandanshi (), which shows trade with the continent, and the "Baidarka", an allute boat. It uses the building of the former Bank of Japan Hakodate branch, which was built in 1926.

It displays autograph manuscripts and love supplies by writers such as Takuboku Ishikawa, who have a connection to Hakodate. The building is used by restoring what was built as the Daiichi Bank Hakodate Branch during the Taisho era.

A city park opened in 1982. The place name of "Hakodate" is from the fact that Masamichi Kono of Tsugaru came to this area during the Sengoku period to build a box-shaped hall. It was the site of the first place where the Hakokan magistrate was placed in the late Edo period, and was the administrative center of the city of Hakodate during the Meiji period, partly due to the location of the Kanō Hakodate Branch Office and the Hakodate Prefectural Office. In addition to the former Hokkaido Government Hakodate branch office building and the former Kanō Hakodate branch office book store of the Meiji period architecture, there is also a statue of four people including Uemon, Imai, who contributed to the formation of the city of Hakodate, and the former Hakodate Ward Public Hall of National Designated Important Cultural Property next to the mountain side. Pergola and rose flower beds were also maintained, and the "Hakodate International Folk Arts Festival" was also held in August.

A grassy square at the foot of Mount Hakodate, just off Motomachi Park and the former British consulate. To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the visit to Hakodate of American Admiral Matthew Perry, who came to Hakodate in the first year of Ansei (1854), a memorial to Admiral Perry was erected on the site of the former Municipal Hakodate Hospital and nicknamed "Perry Square". The monument, which stands on a high ground in the square, is striking with a statue of Admiral Perry standing gently overlooking the port of Hakodate. By the way, Perry praised Hakodate as a "natural good port."

It is a park with a wonderful view of the Tsugaru Strait and the city, and there is also the first local museum in Japan and a monument to Takuboku. During the cherry blossom period, Yoshino cherry blossoms and other places are full of people enjoying the cherry blossoms at night.

It is located on a high ground overlooking Hakodate Bay, just up the end of the Uminizaka. A foreign cemetery that began with the burial of two of the dead sailors in Hakodate, accompanying Perry Raikan in the first year of Ansei (1854). Since then, many foreigners who have died far from their homeland, such as England, China, Russia and France, have been buried on the sea or in the land of Hakodate. It is adjacent to a Protestant cemetery, a Russian cemetery, and a Chinese cemetery, and is also known as a view spot with views over Hakodate Port.

It is about 720m, the longest among the major slopes of Hakodate. It used to be two slopes, and it has been called by various names such as "Shōmei-Terazaka" and "Kaesinkazaka" in its long history. After the great fire of 1879, when it became a single slope like the present day, the name "Yayoi", meaning spring, was given in prayer for the prosperity and development of the region. Near the upper part of the slope, where the road width is narrowed, there are the role of Kimi [Kishino Eki] Navy Battle Monument and the site of the Kannai Garden, which is a land related to the Hakkan War.

The name is derived from the fact that a village road was set up under the slope on a slope that passed through the center of Motomachi, where the Hakodate City Hall used to be located. The road is wide with cobblestones, and the view of Hakodate Bay is good from Motomachi Park at the top of the hill, while the view of Mount Hakodate and the former Hakodate-ku Public Hall of the National Designated Important Cultural Property adjacent to Motomachi Park can be seen from Sakashita. There are many attractions along the way, such as the former British consulate in Hakodate City and the monument to Admiral Perry's visit.

A thin slope that stretches straight from the former pier of the harbor to the Funatama Shrine by cracking the center of Motomachi. From Sakagami, you can see the view of Hakodate Bay, and this name is given because you can see the sky pattern. The Funatama Shrine in Sakagami has a history from the first year of Honobu (1135) and the sukei legend.

In the Motomachi area, a number of slopes extend from the foot of Mount Hakodate toward the harbor. Omisasaka [Daisanzaka], which is lined with Catholic Hakodate Motomachi Church and Hakodate St. John Church along the road surface of emotional cobblestones, and Hachimanzaka [Hachimanzaka], which overlooks the Hakodate City Seikan Liaison Ship Memorial Hall Mashumaru floating in Hakodate Port, is a picturesque landscape, it is popular as a walking spot. The Hachimanzaka and the Jimanazaka during the "Hakodate Illumination" period in winter are also romantic. At the starting point or in the middle of the slope, there is a pillar that explains the origin of the name of the slope, so I want to stop and read it.