{"id":14600,"date":"2020-06-03T13:30:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T05:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/?p=14600"},"modified":"2020-06-26T14:25:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T06:25:03","slug":"takuboku-park-in-hakodate-a-quick-highway-beach-side-stop-featuring-the-tsugaru-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/2020\/06\/03\/takuboku-park-in-hakodate-a-quick-highway-beach-side-stop-featuring-the-tsugaru-strait\/","title":{"rendered":"Takuboku Park in Hakodate: A Quick Highway Beach-side Stop Featuring the Tsugaru Strait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Parks are often a quick stopover while on vacation. Here in Hakodate, just a few minutes away from the airport is a quick highway beach-side park that features Japan&#8217;s Tsugaru Strait.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14601\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/TakubokushoPark_PhilippinePrimer-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/TakubokushoPark_PhilippinePrimer-6.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/TakubokushoPark_PhilippinePrimer-6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/TakubokushoPark_PhilippinePrimer-6-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Takuboku Park<\/strong> isn\u2019t pretty much any other big parks around Hakodate. It is relatively small and is strategically located along the highway of Isaribidori perfectly backdropped with a beach that overlooks the nearby towns and the Tsugaru Strait.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The park is named after Takuboku Ishikawa, a poet who loves and appreciates the beauty of this place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14602\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/TakubokushoPark_PhilippinePrimer-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/TakubokushoPark_PhilippinePrimer-4.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/TakubokushoPark_PhilippinePrimer-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/TakubokushoPark_PhilippinePrimer-4-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although tourists aren\u2019t allowed to swim at the beach area, exploring the beach area can lead to finding kelps or large, brown seaweeds that often grow on saltwater near the coastal area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14603\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/TakubokushoPark_PhilippinePrimer-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/TakubokushoPark_PhilippinePrimer-5.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/TakubokushoPark_PhilippinePrimer-5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/TakubokushoPark_PhilippinePrimer-5-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Considering that the park is small, picnics aren\u2019t encouraged here but on the coastline, there is a small shed with benches wherein guests can sit and take in the serene and calming sound of the waves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14604\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/TakubokushoPark_PhilippinePrimer-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/TakubokushoPark_PhilippinePrimer-7.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/TakubokushoPark_PhilippinePrimer-7-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/06\/TakubokushoPark_PhilippinePrimer-7-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Since the park is just along the highway, the park and the beach area is a good stop for some quick photo-ops. It is also along the way to some of the famous attractions around Hakodate like\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hakodate Tropical Botanical Garden or the Hot-Tubbing Monkeys.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Also read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/2020\/06\/01\/goryokaku-park-in-hakodate-gives-you-a-360-degree-view-of-the-snow-covered-star-shaped-park\/\" target=\"_blank\">Goryokaku Park in Hakodate Gives You a 360-Degree View of the Snow-Covered Star-Shaped Park!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong>General Information:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Address:<\/strong> 25 Hinodecho, Hakodate, Hokkaido<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>This first appeared in Philippine Primer\u2019s English Magazine\u00a0May 2020 issue.<br \/>\nWritten by Denisse Tenorio<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takubokusho Park isn\u2019t pretty much any other big parks around Hakodate. It is relatively small and is strategically located along the highway of Isaribidori perfectly backdropped with a beach that overlooks the nearby towns and the Tsugaru Strait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1078,1749,59,691,64,71,1407,2850,3047,3065],"tags":[256,1119,3049,3053,3054,3066,3069,3070,3073],"class_list":["post-14600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-park","category-hakodate","category-hokkaido-prefecture","category-beaches","category-hakodate-spot","category-nature","category-tourist-spot","category-travel","category-hakodate-japan-guide-2020","category-hokkaido-2020","category-hokkaido-japan-guide-2020","tag-hakodate-japan","tag-japan-travel","tag-hokkaido-japan","tag-japan-travel-2020","tag-hokkaido-japan-2020","tag-japan-travels","tag-japan-travel-guide","tag-japan-travel-guide-2020","tag-takubokusho-park"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14600"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14612,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14600\/revisions\/14612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}