Ōfune Site

The site is in what is now part of the city of Hakodate in Oshima Subprefecture on the island of Hokkaido in northern Japan.

The site covers an area of 71.832 square kilometers (7,183.2 ha; 27.734 sq mi).

The dates of the site's habitation correspond to the early and middle Jōmon period of Japanese history.

The community was positioned alongside the Pacific Ocean, enabling easy access to fishing and whaling grounds and providing an avenue for the site's people to trade extensively with other communities in the Tōhoku region.

[1] On 29 December 2002, 70,000 excavated artifacts from the site were damaged or destroyed when a fire broke out in an exhibition room.