Hakodate, Hokkaido · Old shogunate / Pro-shogunate
Hakodate / Goryokaku
Goryokaku was the center of Enomoto Takeaki's Hakodate government. It is not only a place of defeat, but the final political experiment of the old shogunate side, with a shadow of later beginning again.
Takeaki Enomoto
AddressAround 44 Goryokaku-cho, Hakodate, Hokkaido
Nearby
- Goryokaku ParkThe star-shaped fort where the final stage of the Hakodate War can be felt on foot.
- Hakodate Magistrate OfficeA restored facility preserving the memory of old-shogunate administration.
- Goryokaku TowerThe best place to understand the star-shaped fort from above.
- Hekketsu-hi MonumentA memorial to old-shogunate soldiers killed in the Hakodate War.