Hakone-Yumoto Station

Hakone-Yumoto Station
箱根湯本駅
Old station entrance of Hakone-Yumoto Station (2005)
Location
Prefecture Kanagawa
(See other stations in Kanagawa)
District Ashigarashimo
Town Hakone
Neighborhood etc. Yumoto Shiraishishita 707-1
Postal Code 250 - 0311
(in Japanese) 神奈川県足柄下郡箱根町湯本白石下707-1
History
Year opened 1919
Rail services
Operator(s) Hakone Tozan Railway
Line(s) Hakone Tozan Line
Medium bus terminal at this station

Hakone-Yumoto Station (箱根湯本駅 Hakone-Yumoto-eki?) is a railway station on the Hakone Tozan Line located in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is 6.1 rail kilometers from the line’s terminus at Odawara Station.

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History

Hakone-Yumoto station was opened on October 1, 1888, as "Odawara Horse-drawn Railway" terminal Yumoto Station, from Kōzu Station (Tōkaidō Main Line), via Odawara Station. On June 1, 1919, new electrified funicular railway was opened from Hakone-Yumoto to Gōra, and Hakone Tozan Railway (founded 1928) changed its Odawawa - Hakone-Yumoto tram line to a railway in 1935.

Since 1950, Odakyū Electric Railway takes through service from Shinjuku Station on its Odawara Line, by Limited Express "Romancecar" and Express (commuter cars), on triple gauge, 1067mm (Odakyū) and 1435mm (Hakone Tozan). After Mar 15, 2008, Odakyū ceased normal Express service on the Hakone Tozan Line. A new station building was completed in 2009.

Lines

Building

Hakone-Yumoto station has one bay platform and two side platforms serving four tracks. There are some shops, information center for sightseeing and reservation of hotels, and bus terminal also in front of the station.

Platforms

1 ■Hakone Tozan Line limited express trains for Odawara, ■Machida, Shinjuku (on Odakyū Odawara Line), and ○Kita-Senju (on Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line)
2 ■Hakone Tozan Line local trains for Odawara, ■Shin-Matsuda and Shinjuku (on Odakyū Odawara Line)
3 ■Hakone Tozan Line for Gōra
4 ■Hakone Tozan Line extra

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Hakone Tozan Line
Terminus   Local   Tōnosawa
Iriuda   Local   Terminus
Odawara   Limited Express   Terminus

External links

Stations of the Hakone Tozan Railway