This is our complete Hakodate series in one place: every travel guide and hotel recommendation we have published for Hokkaido’s historic southern port. Use it as your starting point, then explore each guide for the detail.

Hakodate Travel Guides

• Hakodate Travel Guide: Night Views, History and Seafood — the overview and trip planner.
• Mount Hakodate: One of the World’s Great Night Views
• Motomachi and the Bay: Historic Hakodate
• Hakodate Morning Market and Seafood
• Goryokaku: Hakodate’s Star-Shaped Fort

Where to Stay in Hakodate

• Where to Stay in Hakodate: Station and Bay Hotels — central and convenient.
• Where to Stay in Hakodate: Yunokawa Onsen Hotels — relaxing hot springs.

Planning Your Trip

Hakodate rewards a full day and evening: the morning market and Goryokaku by day, Motomachi in the afternoon, and the famous night view to finish. Add a night in Yunokawa Onsen to relax, or use the city as the southern gateway for a wider Hokkaido trip. Together, the guides above cover everything you need to plan the journey.