Hakone, Kanagawa

January 21, 2019

Torii of the shrine inwards Hakone, at Lake Ashi

Hakone (箱根町, Hakone-machi?) is a town inwards Ashigarashimo District inwards Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 2010, the town had an estimated population of 13,339 as well as a density of 144 persons per km². The full expanse was 92.82 km².

Lake Ashi from Hakone Ropeway, a major tourist attraction inwards Hakone

History

Hakone is the place of a noted Shinto shrine, the Hakone Gongen, which is mentioned inwards Heian catamenia literature. During the Gempei War, Minamoto no Yoritomo prayed at this shrine for victory over his enemies, later his defeat at the Battle of Ishibashiyama, which was also located amongst the borders of present-day Hakone. As amongst the balance of Sagami Province, the expanse came nether the command of the slowly Hōjō clan of Odawara during the Sengoku period. After the firstly of the Edo period, Hakone-juku was a post service station on the Tōkaidō highway connecting Edo amongst Kyoto. It was also the site of a major barrier as well as official checkpoint on the road known every bit the Hakone Checkpoint (箱根関所, Hakone sekisho?), which formed the edge of the Kantō region. Under the Tokugawa shogunate, all travellers entering as well as leaving Edo along the Tōkaidō were stopped hither past times officials, as well as their go permits as well as baggage was examined.

After the firstly of the Meiji Restoration, Hakone became a purpose of the short-lived Ashigara Prefecture earlier becoming purpose of Ashigarashimo District inwards Kanagawa prefecture inwards August 1876. Hakone attained town condition inwards 1889. After merger amongst v neighboring towns as well as villages inwards September 1956, it reached its introduce boundaries.

Lake Ashi

Transportation

Railway

² Hakone Tozan Railway

² Hakone Tozan Cable Car

² Hakone Ropeway

² Izuhakone Railway

Hakone is best accessed from Odawara as well as Mishima, the terminus of the Odakyu Odawara Line, lxx minutes from Shinjuku, Tokyo. From Odawara, the Hakone Tozan Line continues into diverse resort towns inwards Hakone. Odakyu also runs the Romancecar limited limited betwixt Shinjuku as well as Hakone-Yumoto. From Gora, the terminus of Hakone Tozan Line, the Hakone Tozan Cable Car funicular goes to Sounzan. Owakudani tin endure reached past times Hakone Ropeway from Sounzan as well as the lake, field the lake is crisscrossed past times cartoonishly decorated "pirate" ships for tourists. There is also Hakone Komagatake Ropeway, which goes to the plough over of Mount Komagatake.

The summertime festival inwards Hakone includes a bonfire inwards the shape of the kanji 大 (dai) as well as fireworks

A pop "Hakone Free Pass", allowing unlimited work of virtually forms of carry for several days, is available. Hakone Free Pass tin endure bought inwards Shinjuku, Odawara as well as whatever other main station along Odakyu Odawara Line.

Highways

² Hakone Shindō

² Japan National Route 1

² Japan National Route 138

Yellow Grass

Really cool looking yellowish grass inwards Hakone

Ship inwards Fog

The shipping rests at a dock inwards the fog inwards Nihon

Small Japanese House

This little delineate of piece of work solid inwards a hamlet inwards Nihon seems to blend into the woods

Lakefront

The lakefront of a little lake inwards Hakone, Nihon

Nature Home

A dwelling built into nature inwards a little town inwards Nihon

Japan Tourist Lake

Various boats, paddleboats as well as duck boats are inwards the middle of this tourist lake inwards Nihon

Small Japanese Town

A charming Japanese town inwards nature

Japanese Hotel Room

A measure Japanese hotel room where yous slumber on the dry reason as well as sit down or as well as hence this piffling tabular array every bit yous swallow as well as gulp tea

Nature River

Buildings inside the hillside along a river inwards Nihon

Hakone Tourism

Paddle boats as well as a few ships sit down inwards a lake inwards Hakone. This is Feb as well as hence at that spot aren't likewise many people interested