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The Port of Hakodate (函館港, Hakodate-kō) is one of the main ports in northern Japan, located in Hakodate, on the northern island of Hokkaido. The port was damaged in the March 2011 earthquake. [2]
Hakodate was Japan's first city whose port was opened to foreign trade in 1854, as a result of Convention of Kanagawa, and used to be the most important port in northern Japan. The city was the biggest city in Hokkaido before the Great Fire of Hakodate in 1934.
The Former British Consulate of Hakodate (Japanese: 函館市旧イギリス領事館, Hepburn: Hakodate-shi kyū Igirisu ryōjikan), 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 ...
Major cities include Sapporo and Asahikawa in the central region, and the port of Hakodate facing Honshu in the south. Sapporo is Hokkaidō's largest city and the fifth-largest in Japan. It had a population of 1,959,750 as of 31 July 2023 and a population density of 1,748/km 2 (4,530/sq mi).
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Hokkaidō has multiple plains such as the Ishikari Plain 3,800 km 2 (1,500 sq mi), Tokachi Plain 3,600 km 2 (1,400 sq mi), the Kushiro Plain 2,510 km 2 (970 sq mi) (the largest wetland in Japan) and Sarobetsu Plain 200 km 2 (77 sq mi). Hokkaidō is 83,423.84 km 2 (32,210.12 sq mi) which makes it the second-largest island of Japan.
Japan first opened two ports to allow foreign trade, Shimoda and Hakodate after the signing the Convention of Kanagawa with the United States in 1854. It then designated five more treaty ports in 1858 with the signing of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce ., Yokohama , Kobe , Nagasaki , Osaka , and Niigata .
The Seikan Ferry (青函フェリー) is a privately owned ferry service crossing the Tsugaru Strait, which separates the Japanese islands of Hokkaido and Honshu.The company, Seikan Ferry Ltd. (有限会社青函フェリー), was founded in 1973 and runs between the cities of Aomori on the northern tip of Honshu and Hakodate in southern Hokkaido.