page_title: Hakone-Yumoto Station
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Hakone-Yumoto Station / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Odawara Electric Railways Yumoto Station immediately after opening 日本語: 開業直後の小田原電気鉄道湯本駅
context_page_description: Hakone-Yumoto Station is a railway station on the Hakone Tozan Line in Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan.
context_section_description: Hakone-Yumoto station opened on October 1, 1888, as "Odawara Horse-drawn Railway" terminal Yumoto Station, from Kōzu Station (on the Tokaido Main Line), via Odawara Station. On June 1, 1919, a new electrified funicular railway was opened from Hakone-Yumoto to Gōra, and the Hakone Tozan Railway (founded 1928) converted the Odawawa to Hakone-Yumoto tram line to a railway in 1935.
  Since 1950, Odakyu Electric Railway provides through services from Shinjuku Station on its Odawara Line, by Limited Express "Romancecar" and Express (commuter trains). After March 15, 2008, Odakyu discontinued normal Express services on the Hakone Tozan Line. A new station building was completed in 2009.
caption: Hakone-Yumoto Station in 1919
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