Hakodate Won Us Over Pt 2 | Japan 2016 | Episode 9.2

My morning exploring Midori-no-Shima (seen in the previous video) started to warm me up to Hakodate, but it wasn’t until our afternoon exploring the Motomachi area (seen in this video) that we both started to fall in love with this city.
Being the first port opened to foreign trade in 1854, Hakodate attracted many foreign traders and Motomachi was their preferred area to settle. This left it’s beautiful mark on Hakodate with an interesting melding of Western, Russian and Japanese architectural styles.

While exploring Motomachi we found the Russian Orthodox Church, Catholic Hakodate Motomachi Church, Motomachi Park, the old Town Hall and let’s not forget the second best melon bread ice cream in the world. We were lucky to be descending into Motomachi Park just as the sun was setting giving us a spectacular view over Hakodate port.

We finished out our day shopping in the red brick warehouses, followed up with a meal of soup curry and Genghis Khan (barbecued mutton).

Hakodate is an amazing city, and as it revealed it’s beauty succeeded in winning us over.

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Locations seen in this episode
La Vista Hakodate Bay –
Russian Orthodox Church –
Catholic Hakodate Motomachi Church –
Melon Bread Ice Cream Shop –
Old Public Hall –
Motomachi Park –
Former Hakodate Branch Office of Hokkaido Government –
Kanamori Soko Warehouses –
Hakodate Bay Gourmet Club –