Kanzashi means a long ornamental hairpin in Japanese. This is one of the Japanese traditional hair accessories. Kanzashi was the most popular at the end of the Edo period (about 200 years ago) and hair accessory artisans created many kinds of beautiful works.

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The Hakodate foreign cemetery is in the beach area of Hakodate city, near the coast. It is famous because the evening sun looks beautiful there.
The first people buried here in 1854 were two mariners from the fleet of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry.

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The Old British Consulate in Hakodate is in Motomachi Park. It was established in 1859, when Hakodate opened the port. Since then, the consulate has raised the Union Jack in Hakodate for 75 years.
After being in a fire several-times, the consulate was rebuilt in its current place in 1913; designed by the British government Engineering works ministry Construction bureau in Shanghai.

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Old Public Hall of Hakodate ward is an American colonial style building. The hall exists on top of the MOTOMACHI park. The designer was KONISHI asajiro, who was an engineer of Hakodate ward. The contractor was MURAKI jinsabro, who was the great master carpenter in Hakodate.

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