Chōkoku-no-Mori Station

Chōkoku-no-mori Station 彫刻の森駅
Exterior of Chōkoku-no-mori Station
Location	Ni-no-Taira-aze, Kitabatake 1204-6, Hakone, Ashigarashimo, Kanagawa （神奈川県足柄下郡箱根町二ノ平字北畑１２０４－６） Japan
Operated by	Hakone Tozan Railway
Line(s)	Hakone Tozan Line
Connections	Bus stop
History
Opened	1919
Previous names	Ni-no-Taira (until 1972)

Chōkoku-no-mori Station (彫刻の森駅, Chōkokunomori-eki) is a railway station on the Hakone Tozan Line located in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is 14.3 rail kilometers from the line’s terminus at Odawara Station, named after Hakone Open-Air Museum.

History

Chōkoku-no-mori Station was opened on June 1, 1919 as Ni-no-Taira Station (二ノ平駅, Ninotaira-eki). It was renamed to its present name on March 15, 1972 on the opening of the nearby Hakone Open-Air Museum of modern sculpture.

Lines

Hakone Tozan Railway
- Hakone Tozan Line

Building

Chōkoku-no-mori Station has two opposed side platforms.

Platforms

1	■ Hakone Tozan Line	Westbound (For Gōra)
2	■ Hakone Tozan Line	Eastbound (For Hakone-Yumoto, Odawara)

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Hakone Tozan Line
Kowakidani		Local		Gōra

Bus services

Hakone Tozan Bus
- for Kowaki-en (transfer for Moto-Hakone (Lake Ashi) direction), Yunessun^[1]
- for Gora Station, Gora Park, Hakone Art Museum (Kōen-Kami Station), Pola Museum of Art, The Little Prince and Saint-Exupéry Museum, Senkyoro-mae (transfer for Togendai (Lake Ashi)), Hakone Venetian Glass Museum, Sengoku (transfer for JR Gotemba Station and Shinjuku Station), Hakone Botanical Garden of Wetlands, Lalique Museum, Otome Toge, and Gotemba Premium Outlets^[2]
- for Miyagino and JR Gotemba Station^[3]

References

External links

Stations of the Hakone Tozan Railway

Hakone Tozan Line (Odakyū Odawara Line) << Odawara Hakone-Itabashi Kazamatsuri Iriuda Hakone-Yumoto Tōnosawa Ōhiradai Miyanoshita Kowakidani Chōkoku-no-Mori Gōra Hakone Tozan Cable Car Gōra Kōen-Shimo Kōen-Kami Naka-Gōra Kami-Gōra Sōunzan

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Coordinates: 35°14′47.30″N 139°3′2.97″E / 35.2464722°N 139.0508250°E / 35.2464722; 139.0508250

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