HAKODATE

by masayuki nagare
1993 to 2004
this photo was taken inside Hakodate train station

The Hakodate train station sculpture, about parenting.

a.k.a. High Dragon Temple

334m high

I am a photography machine. I took pictures of things and places. I recorded the date, time and location of my pictures. In doing so, I hope to transform a particular moment and place into immortality. A thousands years later, when people see my pho...

My destination was the foreigners' cemetery. But even with the guidance of my advance GPS system, I still lost my way and ended up in the local people's cemetery, which is on the opposite side of the peninsula.

It was nice all the same. I was surro...

I saw a doll lying on the side of the road. Her face white and shiny, like porcelain, her green kimono was dated, and fading.

As a routine I took a picture, recorded the location and documented it with my PDA. I was going to leave her like that, bu...

Finally I found the tomb of Ishikawa Takuboku. As expected, he was very important because there was a large paragraph of text in English and Japanese dedicated to him.

According to the text, he was a brilliant and renowned poet of the Meiji era and...

Miyazaki Ikuu (real name Miyazaki Daishiro) was born in Niigata Prefecture in 1885. After his birth, his family moved to Hakodate and his father started a MISO (soy bean paste) factory. Ikuu became a staff member of the literary group "Bokushukusha"...

CAPE TACHIMACHI "YOKO-USHI" ORIGINAL AINU PLACE NAME
TACHIMACHI is derived from the Ainu name for this cape "YOKOUSHI." YOKOUSHI means "the place where people stand and wait to catch fish." The present Japanese name is thus a translation of the Ainu...

I passed by the poem monument of Yosano Hirosh and I recorded the English text next to the monument. Here's what it said:

In 1956 the 13th anniversary of Okada Kenzo's death was held. Okada Kenzo is known as the founder of Hakodate Municipal Librar...

However delicious it looks, it's not eatable.

My Japanese friend (whom I met previously) also mentioned something about the Japaneses in World War II, the Hakodate mountain was a military zone and got heavily bombarded by the American planes, but I...

After I took this photo, someone offered me a ride to Onuma Park. I returned to Hakodate at around 4:00pm.

*Note: This is the picture of the memorial hall, not the graveyard. I took some pictures of the Chinese graveyard, but the picture didn't turn out (that was because of the rain not because of the ghosts). I was thankful for the rain because it force...

This picture shows the antique cameras on the second floor. There is also a stereoscope with photos taken at the beginning of the century.

Exhibition on the first floor is free, the second floor cost 200Y for entry.

*** ghost face photo 1 *** ...

The Hokkaido Prefectural Government's Old Branch Office In Hakodate was built In 1909 and was restored in 1982 together with the construction of an adjacent park.
One of its main features is a portico; the two-story roof is supported by four huge ...

The old Teramachi (the town of temples) area
From the Edo period to early part of the Meiji period, the three Buddhist temples; Jogenji, Shomyoji, and Jitsugyoji were located side by side in this area. This area was thus bustling with 'many people v...

Didn't take a picture of the motomachi area, so I decided to paste the text on this photo which doesn't has much to do with the text (but it is inside that area)
THE IMPORTANT PRESERVATION DISTRICT FOR A GROUP OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS IN HAKODATE MOTO...

This dates from 1859 when It was built as a temple attached to the first Russian Consulate. It was formerly called "Hakodate Sanctuary of the Resurrection."

In 1869 the young priest Nicholel came to Hakodate from Russia to propagate the Russian Ort...

In 1859 the first temporary Catholic Chapel was founded by French Missionary Mermet De Cachon. Priest of Paris foreign missions society. It was the beginning Of such work in Japan after the deporation order of Christians by the Tokugawa Government. ...

The Hakodate Episcopal Church belongs to the Episcopal church of Japan. A missionary W. Denning of the Anglican Church Missionary Society, first came to Hakodate to preach the gospel in 1874 and established a base here.

In 1878 the first sanctuary ...

This is the view you can see from the cafeteria on Hakodate zan. The food is cheap. Probably the best valued resturant around the area.

From this picture, you can see the port, the Hakodate JR train station and Toyoko Inn (the hotel I stayed).

CEMETERY FOR FOREIGNERS is on the north eastern side of Hakodate (not on this picture). I paste the text here merely because I have lost the...