550 years ago, on the place of today’s Hakodate was an Ainu fishing village named Usukeshi. Here, a man named Kono Kaganokami Masamichi built a feudal mansion which was shaped like a box. That building gave the name of today’s city, hako-date meaning “box mansion".
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