Hakodate Port Festival
函館港まつり / Hakodate minatomatsuri
Hakodate Port Festival
函館港まつり / Hakodate minatomatsuri
- Rough annual schedule
- August 1st to 5th
- Fixed schedule
- 2018/08/01 - 2018/08/05 (YYYY/MM/DD)
This is the largest summer event in Hakodate. There is a fireworks display at the port on the first day. Wasshoi Hakodate is parades, which involve over 20,000 paraders. In the parades, some women dressed in kimono dance traditional Hakodate Port Dance, some perform passionate YOSAKOI dance, and the others dance Squid Dance, Hakodate's specialty. Squid Dance is so easy that the spectators can join the parade and dance it together.
Hours
- Fireworks Display (Aug. 1) 7:45 pm – around 9:00 pm
- Parade(Aug. 2, 3) 4:00 pm – around 9:30 pm
Phone
This phone number is for inquiries only. It is unrelated to the actual address.
(It cannot be inputted into a car navigation system.)
Map
To call from abroad to Hakodate
- 1. Dial the international dialing access code and Japan's country code (81). See here
- 2. Drop the first 0 and dial everything else. For example, to call the Japanese number 0138-00-0000 from the US, dial 011-81-138-00-0000.
- Summer
