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Hakodate

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Hakodate , city (1990 pop. 307,249), extreme SW Hokkaido, Japan, on the Tsugaru Strait. Opened (1854) to U.S. ships and a little later (1857) to general foreign trade, it was the chief port of the island until recently replaced by Sapporo . It is linked with Aomori on Honshu by the Seikan Tunnel. A commercial and industrial center, the city's main industries are fishing, shipbuilding, and food processing. Of interest is the Goryokaku, the fort where the Tokugawa shogun made his last stand.

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Hakodate

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Hakodate, Hokkaidō/Japan Usukishi ‘Box Castle’, a reference to Goryokaku, a 15th‐century fort of the Kono clan built in the shape of a five‐pointed star and now a park, where the Tokugawa shogunate made its last stand in 1867. The name is derived from hako ‘box’ and tate ‘fort’. The former name came from usukeshi ‘edge of the bay’ in Ainu.

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