8 Sights in Hakone, Japan (with Map and Images)

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Explore interesting sights in Hakone, Japan. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 8 sights are available in Hakone, Japan.

1. Sounji Temple

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Sounji Temple (早雲寺) is a temple of the Rinzai sect Daitokuji sect located in Yumoto, Hakone, Ashigarashimo-gun, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The mountain number is Mt. Kinyu. The main statue is Buddha. Inside the temple is the tomb of the 5th generation of the Go-Hojo clan and a monument to the renka master Sosuke. There are nationally important cultural properties such as the textile Zhang Bundai and inkstone box, the Hojo Hayakumo portrait, and the prefectural designated cultural property Hojo Ujitsuna and Ujiyasu.

Wikipedia: 早雲寺 (JA)

2. Hakone Open-Air Museum

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The Hakone Open-Air Museum is Japan's first open-air museum, opened in 1969 in Hakone, Ashigarashimo District, Kanagawa Prefecture. It holds collections of artworks by Picasso, Henry Moore, Taro Okamoto, Yasuo Mizui, Churyo Sato, Susumu Shingū, and many others, featuring over a thousand sculptures and works of art. The museum is affiliated with the Fujisankei Communications Group media conglomerate.

Wikipedia: Hakone Open-Air Museum (EN), Website

3. Okada Museum of Art

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Okada Museum of Art

Okada Museum of Art opened in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, in 2013. A private museum of Asian art with the largest indoor exhibition space in Hakone, extending over five floors, the collection of some 450 pieces centres on early modern and modern Japanese painting while also including Chinese bronzes, lacquer, ceramics, and Buddhist sculpture.

Wikipedia: Okada Museum of Art (EN)

4. Hakone Komagatake Ropeway

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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.

Wikipedia: Hakone Komagatake Ropeway (EN), Website

5. Botanical Gardens of Wetlands

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The Hakone Botanical Garden of Wetlands is a botanical garden located within the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park at 817 Sengokuhara, Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan. It is open daily in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged.

Wikipedia: Hakone Botanical Garden of Wetlands (EN), Website

6. Hakone Museum Of Art

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The Hakone Museum of Art is located in Hakone, Ashigarashimo-gun, Kanagawa Prefecture, and is the oldest art museum in Hakone. Among the Oriental and Japan art, ceramics are exhibited. It opened on June 15, 1952 (Showa 27).

Wikipedia: 箱根美術館 (JA), Website

7. Narukawa Museum of Art

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Narukawa Museum of Art

The Narukawa Museum of Art is an art museum located in Motohakone, Hakone, Ashigarashimo-gun, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It opened in 1988. It is a private museum and owns more than 4,000 works by Japan painters.

Wikipedia: 成川美術館 (JA), Website

8. Hakone Jinja shrine

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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).

Wikipedia: Hakone Shrine (EN)

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