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Odakyu Hakone
Four of the company's services, clockwise from top left: Hakone Tozan Line, Hakone Tozan Cable Car, Hakone Ropeway, and Hakone Sightseeing Cruise
Overview
Parent companyOdakyu Group
LocaleHakone, Japan
Dates of operation1 April 2024 (2024-04-01)–present
Predecessor
  • Hakone Tozan Railway
  • Odakyu Hakone Holdings
Technical
Track gauge
  • Odawara–Hakone-Yumoto: 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
  • Iriuda–Gōra: 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
  • Gōra– Sōunzan: 985 mm (3 ft 2+25⁄32 in)
Length20.2 km (12.6 mi), excluding Hakone Sightseeing Cruise
Highest elevation1,044 m (3,425 ft)
Route map

Legend
Hakone Sightseeing Cruise
 OH67 Moto-hakone
OH66 Hakone-machi
Hakone Ropeway enlarge…
 OH65 Tōgendai
OH64 Ubako
OH63 Ōwakudani
Hakone Tozan Cable Car enlarge…
 OH62 Sōunzan
OH61 Kami-Gōra
OH60 Naka-Gōra
OH59 Kōen-Kami
OH58 Kōen-Shimo
Hakone Tozan Line enlarge… (standard gauge)
 OH57 Gōra
OH56 Chōkoku-no-Mori
OH55 Kowakidani
OH54 Miyanoshita
OH53 Ōhiradai
OH52 Tōnosawa
Hakone Tozan Line (narrow gauge)
 OH51 Hakone-Yumoto
OH50 Iriuda
Iriuda depot
 OH49 Kazamatsuri
OH48 Hakone-Itabashi
OH47 Odawara
JT
Odakyū Odawara Line
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Odakyu Hakone Co., Ltd. (Japanese: 株式会社小田急箱根, Hepburn: Kabushiki Gaisha Odakyū Hakone) is a private railway company headquartered in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan and is a part of the Odakyu Group.

Services

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The company operates several services in the Odawara area including the Hakone Tozan Line, the first mountain railway in Japan; the Hakone Tozan Cable Car, a funicular; the Hakone Ropeway, an aerial lift line.[1] Each of these services connect end-to-end providing service that extends 20.2 kilometres (12.6 mi) between Odawara and Togendai stations. At Togendai, passengers can transfer to the company's Hakone Sightseeing Cruise which provides counter-clockwise service on Lake Ashi, connecting three ports using pirate ships.

Like most Japanese railway companies, it also operates bus services in the area, namely the Hakone Tozan Bus [ja].

The company's routes operate inside the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, and the routes themselves are a tourist attraction. Accordingly, the company sells a two-day pass offering unlimited travel on the Hakone Tozan Line, Hakone Tozan Cable Car, Hakone Ropeway, Hakone Sightseeing Cruise, Hakone Tozan Bus, along with other bus routes.[2]

Major services
Type Name Description
Train Hakone Tozan Line[2] Line operates in 2 sections:
  1. Odawara — Hakone-Yumoto is a standard commuter railway line (services operated by parent company Odakyu Electric Railway)
  2. Hakone-Yumoto — Gora is a mountain railway with two switchbacks. The speed limit is 40 km/h (25 mph) uphill and as slow as 25 km/h (16 mph) downhill (dependent on grade).
Cable Car (Funicular) Hakone Tozan Cable Car[2] Funicular connecting Gora with Sōunzan.
Ropeway

(Aerial lift/Funitel)

Hakone Ropeway[2] Twin ropeways Sōunzan — Ōwakudani and Ōwakudani — Tōgendai.
Sightseeing cruise Hakone Sightseeing Cruise[2] Boat cruise around Lake Ashi in a pirate-themed vessel, departing from Tōgendai ropeway station.
Bus Hakone Tozan Bus [ja][2] Various bus services in the Hakone area.
Limited Express train Romancecar Sightseeing train service Shinjuku — Hakone-Yumoto (operated by parent company Odakyu Electric Railway)
  • Odakyu 1000 series commuter train at Kazamatsuri Station
    Odakyu 1000 series commuter train at Kazamatsuri Station
  • Hakone Tozan Railway Line 3100 series 3-car train approaching Ohiradai Station
    Hakone Tozan Railway Line 3100 series 3-car train approaching Ohiradai Station
  • Hakone Tozan Cable Car at Kami-Gōra Station
    Hakone Tozan Cable Car at Kami-Gōra Station
  • Hakone Ropeway
    Hakone Ropeway
  • Hakone Sightseeing Cruise (2013)
    Hakone Sightseeing Cruise (2013)
  • Hakone Tozan Bus
    Hakone Tozan Bus
  • Odakyu 70000 series GSE Romancecar at Haruhino Station
    Odakyu 70000 series GSE Romancecar at Haruhino Station

History

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The Odakyu Hakone company was formed on 1 April 2024 as part of a larger restructuring of Odakyu Group operations in the Hakone area. It is a merger of several transportation, real estate, and sightseeing business, including the Hakone Tozan Railway company, which operated the Hakone Tozan Line. All companies were subsidiaries of the Odakyu Group prior to the merger and held under the Odakyu Hakone Holdings company, the latter of which was also folded into the merger.[3]

See also

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  • Rhaetian Railway, A Swiss mountain railway network, twinning railway with Hakone Tozan Railway.

References

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This article incorporates material from the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia.

  1. ^ "Hakone Tozan Railway". Railway Gazette International. Archived from the original on 23 July 2020. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Odakyu Hakone Transportation Guide" (PDF). Odakyu Hakone. April 2024. Retrieved 22 December 2025.
  3. ^ Odakyu Hakone Holdings Co., Ltd. (24 January 2024). "小田急箱根グループの組織再編に関するお知らせ" [Notice regarding reorganization of Odakyu Hakone Group] (PDF) (in Japanese).
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