8 Sights in Hakone, Japan (with Map and Images)
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Welcome to your journey through the most beautiful sights in Hakone, Japan! Whether you want to discover the city's historical treasures or experience its modern highlights, you'll find everything your heart desires here. Be inspired by our selection and plan your unforgettable adventure in Hakone. Dive into the diversity of this fascinating city and discover everything it has to offer.
Activities in Hakone
The Hakone Barrier was a security checkpoint which was established by the Tokugawa Shogunate on the Tōkaidō highway connecting the capital of Edo with Kyoto in Edo period Japan. In 1923, the site was recognized as a National Historic Site.
The Hakone Shrine is a Japanese Shinto shrine on the shores of Lake Ashi in the town of Hakone in the Ashigarashimo District of Kanagawa Prefecture. It is also known as the Hakone Gongen (箱根権現).
3. Hakone Museum Of Art
The Hakone Museum of Art is the oldest art museum in Hakone, located in Hakone, Ashigarashita District, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Among Oriental and Japan art, ceramics are open to the public. It opened on June 15, 1952 (Showa 27).
4. Sounji Temple
Sounji Temple is a temple of the Daitokuji sect of the Rinzai sect located in Yumoto, Hakone, Ashigarashita District, Kanagawa Prefecture. The name of the mountain is Mt. Kinyu. The main Buddha is Buddha. Inside the temple is the tomb of the fifth generation of the Gohojo clan and a monument to the renka master Sogi. There are textiles Zhang Buntai and Inkstone Box, which are important cultural properties of the country, portraits of Hojo Sakumo, and portraits of Hojo Clantsuna and Ujiyasu, which are important cultural properties designated by the prefecture.
5. Hakone Mount Koma Ropeway
The Hakone Komagatake Ropeway , officially the Komagatake Ropeway Line , is a Japanese aerial lift line in Hakone, Kanagawa, operated by Izu Hakone Railway. The line, opened in 1963, climbs Mount Koma from the Lake Ashi lakeside.
6. Narukawa Museum of Art
The Narukawa Museum of Art is an art museum located in Motohakone, Hakone Town, Ashigarashimo District, Kanagawa Prefecture. It opened in 1988. It is a private museum and owns more than 4,000 works by Japan painters.
7. Hakone Ekiden museum
The Hakone Ekiden Museum is a museum themed around the "Tokyo-Hakone Round-Trip University Ekiden Race" located on the shores of Lake Ashi in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture. It was established in March 2005.
8. Mt. Koma
Mount Koma or Hakone Komagatake, with the altitude of 1,356 meters, is one of the peaks of the central cone of Mount Hakone, located in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture. Its summit, a grass field that offers a great view of its surroundings, is visited by many hikers, using the 1,800-meter-long Hakone Komagatake Ropeway from Hakone Garden on Lake Ashi.
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