Hakata usually refers to Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, a ward in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.

Hakata may also refer to:

• Hakata, Ehime, a town in Ehime Prefecture, Japan; now part of Imabari
• Hakata Bay, a bay on the Japanese island of Kyūshū
  • Battle of Bun'ei, also known as the First Battle of Hakata Bay, during the first Mongol invasions of Japan
  • Battle of Kōan, also known as the Second Battle of Hakata Bay, during the second Mongol invasion of Japan
• Hakata dialect
• Hakata doll, traditional Japanese clay dolls, originally from Hakata
• Hakata Station, a large train station in Fukuoka
• Hakata, a southern African form of divination; see Astragalomancy
• Hakata, a nickname for the German Eastern Marches Society, a German nationalist organization