Hakodate Japan Oshima

273 Cruises availables At departure or passage at this port

Azamara Club Cruises (24 Cruises)

Azamara Pursuit

1112 Passengers
30277 tons
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Holland America Line (19 Cruises)

Princess Cruises (95 Cruises)

Cuise-PCL Princess Diamond ship

Diamond Princess

2670 Passengers
115875 tons
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Cruise PCL Princess Sapphire Ship

Sapphire Princess

2670 Passengers
115857 tons
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Seabourn Cruise Line (44 Cruises)

Seabourn Encore.

Seabourn Encore

40350 tons
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Silversea Cruises (39 Cruises)


Frequently Asked Questions

At quays near the station, sometimes a little further out depending on ship size. That is fortunate: the morning market is steps from the station, and the historic Motomachi district is a 20 to 30 minute walk from the port.
Because in 1859 it was, with Yokohama and Nagasaki, one of three ports opened to foreign trade after two centuries of closure. Consuls, merchants and missionaries settled here: Orthodox churches, red brick warehouses and cobbled slopes form a setting found nowhere else.
The morning market first thing, then the Motomachi slopes, then the Kanemori warehouses on the way back down to the port. Mount Hakodate and Goryokaku each require a separate round trip: keep only one.
A fish market steps from the station, busy from dawn. Sea urchin, crab, scallops and squid are sold barely out of the water. In the neighbouring hall, donburi alley, some twenty counters serve the rice bowl topped with raw seafood.
The Russian Orthodox church, Japan's first, founded in 1860, the former British consulate with its tea room, and the old public hall with its blue-grey colonnades. Every sloping street frames the sea at the end of its perspective; Hachiman-zaka is the most photographed.
A five-pointed star citadel, unique in Japan, modelled on European designs and completed in 1864 to defend the new port. It served as the last stronghold of the shogun's loyalists in 1869. The site is now a park, with a viewing tower that reveals the geometry of the moats.
Yes, and the Japanese consider this panorama among the finest in the country. The ropeway lifts you 334 metres in three minutes; from the top, the city appears pinched between its two bays. If your call ends in the evening, go up before reboarding.
The seafood donburi from the morning market, the local emblem: rice with sea urchin, scallop and salmon roe depending on the season. Some stalls even let you fish your own squid from a tank. In town, a few ice cream shops dare a squid flavour.
Largely yes, but with climbs. Motomachi rises in broad cobbles from the port, which rules out strollers and tires untrained legs. The city's historic tram solves the problem for a modest fare.
May to October. Goryokaku's cherry trees bloom in May, later than the rest of Japan because this is Hokkaido. Summer is mild compared with the south of the archipelago, and sea fog can veil the view from Mount Hakodate.