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Hakone Tozan Railway
小田急箱根鉄道線Hakone, Kanagawa
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At a Glance
The Hakone Tozan Railway is a mountain railway in Kanagawa Prefecture that climbs from Odawara to Gōra. The 15-kilometre line rises 527 metres through the Hakone hills and Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. Passengers change trains at Hakone-Yumoto, where the specially built mountain section begins. That upper stretch takes about 40 minutes and includes three switchbacks and gradients of up to 8 percent.
The mountain section opened in 1919, with Switzerland's Bernina Railway as its model, and the two railways became sister lines in 1979. Construction had to spare the natural scenery, so the track hugs the hillside in tight curves. In 2007 the line was named a civil engineering heritage site as Japan's steepest adhesion railway.
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Visit Duration
90 minutes
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