Walking Hakodate on a Sunday Afternoon....

Hakodate city is small enough for one to walk through the main touristic areas. And this was what pakdokter and family decided to do on Sunday afternoon.

Pakdokter noticed at at many main intersections and squares the city has decorated these places with bronze sculptures, mostly of children. What these sculptures represent or what stories were attached to these sculptures, pakdokter has the least of an idea about it. Unfortunately, back home such sculptures would be deemed a threat to one's faith of one's religion.....

At one of the little park, several school bands/orchestras were playing classical/march music. Why can't our beuareaucrats in the City Hall think of organising the many school bands in KL to take turns to perform at the Lake Gardens or the KLCC Park on Sundays so as to promote a musical appreciation of the public?

school bands playing classical and march music...

at the waterfront, the oldest ferry that used to

ply between Honshu and Hakodate is now a museum..

a panonaramic sweep of Hakodate port..

the red brick warehouse during the day..

pakdokter had dinner here on the first night..

the Hakodate Factory..

a supermarket below and a seafood restaurant on top..

from the water-front pakdokter walked up to the

Motomachi district where the historical sites were..

there were many European style homes here..

it was quite a steep up-hill walk...

a view of Hakodate port on a clear Sunday afternoon...

the old Governor's House seen in the day...

the Catholic Church seen from the gardens

of the Orthodox Russian Church...

the Russian Orthodox Church seen in the day..

the modern church seen in the day...

pakdokter with the elders of Hakodate city...

at the Motomachi Park...

the Russian Orthodox Church at night...

the modern church...

the Catholic Church...

the Catholic Church...