Hakone, Kanagawa

Hakone

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is a Japanese city in Kanagawa Prefecture on the island of Honshū.

History

Main page: List of the 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō

Hakone — ukiyo-e woodblock print by Hiroshige, circa 1830s

In the Edo period, Hakone-juku was 10th of the 53 shogunate-maintained waystations (shuku-eki) along the Tōkaidō road which connected Edo and Kyoto.

Hakone, Kanagawa Media

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  Hakone Town Hall

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  Mount Fuji from Mount Kami in the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park

Related pages

• The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō

Other websites

• http://www.kanagawa-kankou.or.jp/english/area/hakone.html Archived 2008-04-16 at the Wayback Machine, http://www.kanagawa-kankou.or.jp/index.html Archived 2012-01-26 at the Wayback Machine