List of Seven Must-Visit Spots in Hakodate
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Numerous distinctive hot spring inns and hotels surround Yunokawa Onsen, a coastal hot spring, where you can view the sea while you are bathing to heal yourself.♡ Here a long-standing hot spring inn called Wakamatsu Ryokan is recommended to you.

In Wakamatsu Ryokan, which is representative of Yunokawa Onsen’s style, you can bathe in the open door hot spring hemmed in marbles, while you are viewing the vast expanse of sea, with sea breeze caressing your face. When summer is changing into fall, the inn commands a view of the lights of fishing boats floating on the surface of the sea; in winter, romantic snowscape is visible from here.

Yukura Shrine that guards Yunokawa Onsen Street has been established for more than 300 years. If you walk along the street of stores from Yumeguributai for about 7 minutes, a large red torii, and then Yukura Shrine come into view.

The good luck gavel in the shrine is said to be very magical: if you use it to tap at the part of your body that you experience discomfort, you can be blessed with physical sturdiness!

Hakodate Tropical Botanical Garden is about 15-minute walk from Yukura Shrine. There are the mini amusement park and the water plaza for parents and children in the Garden, and there are free footbath for tourists. Lovely flowers and plants are planted in the tropical greenhouse and the four-season flower bed.♪

The whole line of a streetcar running on the streets is only 10.9 km long, and it takes only 1 hour 40 minutes from the start to the terminal. But every day over 16,000 persons take streetcars, which are a dispensable mode of public transportation.

Streetcars run every 6 to 12 minutes during the day and will take you to the main tourist attractions, including Hakodate Station, Motomachi, the Bay Area, Goryokaku and Yunokawa. A fare costs between 210 to 250 yen, which is paid when alighting.

Buses are another convenient means of transportation, offering direct access to various tourist attractions, including Mount Hakodate Ropeway and Goryokaku Tower. The “Motomachi & Bay-area Shuyu-go” bus, which operates on a continuous loop between Hakodate Station and the Bay Area/Motomachi, is another convenient option.

If you are to take several streetcars and buses in some days, you can purchase bus & streetcar passes. One-day passes and two-day passes are available. The passes are sold at the Tourist Information Center located inside Hakodate Station, and can also be purchased in inns, hotels and convenience stores.