チャチャ登り

チャチャノボリ

■坂名説明板

函館では珍しいアイヌ語の坂名で、幕末頃ついた名前らしい。チャチャとはおじいさんのことで、この坂が急なため、前かがみに腰を曲げて登る姿が老人に似ていたことから「チャチャ登り」と呼ばれた。

CHACHANOBORI SLOPE
The name of this slope is one of few in Hakodate which is derived from the Ainu language.It was probably named in the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate. “Chacha” in Ainu means an aged man.Since this slope is very steep,those who ascend the slope looked like an old man with a stoop.This gives us an image of an aged person.So the slope was named duly.

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