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About Hakodate

Hakodate is a metropolis and port located in Oshima Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. It is the capital city of Oshima Subprefecture. As of July 31, 2011, the metropolis has an envisioned populace of 279,851 with 143,221 families, and a populace density of 412.83 folks consistent with km2 1,069.2 men and women consistent with sq.mi. The overall area is 677.77 km2.

The city is now the 0.33 biggest in Hokkaido after Sapporo and Asahikawa. Hakodate turned into Japan's first metropolis whose port turned into opened to overseas change in 1854, because of Convention of Kanagawa, and was the maximum vital port in northern Japan. Also, the metropolis had been the largest metropolis in Hokkaido before the Great Hakodate Fire of 1934. The town is widely recognized for seafood and sushi, specifically for tuna, squid, salmon roe, sea urchin and crab.

Hakodate shio ramen is likewise a well-known speciality of the town. Shio salt ramen has a light, clean, broth made with lots of salt and any aggregate of hen, beef bone, veggies, fish, and seaweed. On a comparable be aware, Hakodate's town fish is the squid. Hakodate is famous for the restaurant Ikkatei Tabiji, which serves a dish referred to as "dancing squid": - a lately deceased squid is served with soy sauce, the sodium of which causes a cadaveric spasm when poured over the squid.

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