Scenic route
Hakone Tozan Railway
Hakone-Yumoto → Gora · Japan
Japan’s oldest mountain railway hauls itself up 1-in-12.5 grades through three switchbacks, hydrangeas brush the windows each June.
- Distance
- 9 km
- Fastest time
- 38 min
- Average speed
- 14 km/h
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmHakone-Yumoto +1
- 1 kmTōnosawa
- 3 kmOhiradai
- 5 kmMiyanoshita
- 6 kmKowakidani
- 7 kmChōkokunomori
- 7 kmGora
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3414847: the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Odakyu, a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Hakone Tozan Railway?
The Hakone Tozan Railway runs 9 km from Hakone-Yumoto to Gora.
How long does the Hakone Tozan Railway take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 38 min for the 9 km. That is an average of 14 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 40 km/h.
Who runs the Hakone Tozan Railway?
Hakone Tozan Railway (Odakyu), with 3000 “Allegra”.
How old is the Hakone Tozan Railway?
The line has been in service since 1919. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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