Former British Consulate of Hakodate

The Former British Consulate of Hakodate (Japanese: 函館市旧イギリス領事館, Hepburn: Hakodate-shi kyū Igirisu ryōjikan), also officially known as the Opening-Port Memorial Hall and commonly called the Old British Consulate, is a historic house museum meant to preserve the now-defunct consulate of the United Kingdom to Hakodate, Japan, and memorialise the opening of Hokkaido to foreign trade. == History == Hakodate was one of the first Japanese ports to open up to foreign trade after the Perry Expedition alongside Yokohama and Nagasaki in 1859.

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