Hakone, Kanagawa

is a Japanese city in Kanagawa Prefecture on the island of Honshū.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Hakone" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 279.

History

In the Edo period, Hakone-juku was 10th of the 53 shogunate-maintained waystations (shuku-eki) along the Tōkaidō road which connected Edo and Kyoto.Nussbaum, "Tōkaidō"  at p. 973.

Related pages
 The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō

References

 Other websites 

 http://www.kanagawa-kankou.or.jp/english/area/hakone.html , http://www.kanagawa-kankou.or.jp/index.html 

Category:Cities in Kanagawa Prefecture