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.♪