Yoteimaru which is the one of Seikan connection ship is stopping at Hakodate port. Almost of Japanese ship name has -maru. Maru means a circle but Japanese understand that -maru is ship name. Each ship is a different color of body, Yoteimaru is wine red color. As these ships across the violent Tugaru strait, they have great structure and load/drop off the freight train from back of ship.
(Photography: Hakodate Station, 1.1988)