Hakone, Kawagoeland

**Hakone** (Japanese: 箱根 *Hakone*; Chinese: 箱根 *Xiānggēn*; Gujarati: હકોને *Hakōnē*) is the third-largest city in Kawagoeland and is the capital city of the state of Hakone.

The city of Hakone has been home to a lot of businesses dealing with vampirism and witchcraft management, since 1844. Businesses had sold more than 15 billion witch potions, witch and vampire costumes and even vampire accessories for over 145 years. Hakone has the highest number of trick-or-treaters in Kawagoeland, with 700,000 kids between the ages of 4 and 9 go out on October for trick-or-treating. This city is the Halloween capital of Granhaul for these reasons above, and thus the state of Hakone declares 31 October and 1 November as public holidays.

The city is a namesake of a town of Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan, which is Hakone. Hakone developed a number of traditions and its local cuisine, which became one of Kawagoeland's famous cuisines. A number of dishes are associated with the city.

## Places of interest

A number of streets in Hakone are designated as "places of interest".

* **Hakone Boulevard** is the city of Hakone's most important road.
* **Wakayama Alley** was home to a large number of costume shops, particularly those selling witch costumes, but now they are home to maid cafés.
* **Enoshima Road** is the home to the costume/fancy dress street party held on 31 October at night each year since 1975.
* **Abiko Street** has a lot of costume shops since the 1950s.
* **Oimachi Road** sells more than 20 million witch potions since the 1930s.
* **Ogikubo Avenue** is home to businesses that sell witches potions and witches broomsticks.
* **Yamato Avenue** is home to stores selling vampire accessories.
* **Saitama-Hime Square** is home to Kagami Witch, a store that sells witch's hats.
* **Waseda Road** is the location of Ben Cooper Kawagoeland Co., Ltd., which was a subsidiary of Ben Cooper, Inc., a privately held American company.

**Other places of interest**

* **Kintetsu Street**
* **Kiama Street**
* **Nobuhirosha Road**

Abiko Street, Oimachi Road and Yamato Avenue are the streets popular among Western tourists due to the way witches and vampires are associated in the West.

## Transport

All public transport systems are managed by Hakone Department of Transportation. Operations, however, are covered by different companies listed below.

Hakone has two tramway lines and one tramway route, which is designated route 7 and it is the only surviving route of Hakone Tramways (most routes by Hakone Tramways were closed down and replaced by buses in the 1960s).

See Buses in Hakone, Kawagoeland for information about buses in Kawagoeland.

Hakone Suburban Network (Japanese: 箱根郊外鉄道 *Hakone kōgai tetsudō*; Mandarin Chinese: 箱根市郊铁路 *Xiānggēn shìjiāo tiělù*; Gujarati: હાકોન ઉપનગરીય રેલ્વે *Hākōna upanagarīya rēlvē*) is an S-Bahn-like suburban railway network consisting of nine lines. The Hakone Suburban Network is built to 1,067 mm gauge and uses pantographs for electrification. The line numbers are prefixed with an "S".

Hakone Metro (Japanese: 箱根地下鉄 *Hakone chikatetsu*; Mandarin Chinese: 箱根地铁 *Xiānggēn dìtiě*; Gujarati: હાકોન મેટ્રો *Hākōna mēṭrō*) is a group of three sub-metro systems, which are the Hakone Rapid Metro (U1, U2, U3, U4, U7, and U9), the Hakone Lower Metro (U6, U8) and the Hakone Cross-River Rail (U5). The Hakone Lower Metro opened first (in 1936), followed by the Hakone Cross-River Rail (in 1943) and lastly, the Hakone Rapid Metro (in 1975). All Hakone Metro lines use Toronto gauge (1,495 mm gauge), with the exception of line U5, as that line uses *kyōki* gauge (1,067 mm gauge), to allow the rolling stock of the Hakone Suburban Network through-run to the U5 line. Line U5 is the only Hakone Metro line to use pantographs. All other lines of the Hakone Metro are powered by third rail.

Hakone Airport is the oldest airport in Kawagoeland.

## Culture

The city became a place for vampires and witches in 1844. Its lifestyle is influenced by the lifestyle of vampires and witches, owing to Kawagoeland's long tradition of Halloween.

### Cuisine

The cuisine of Hakone is a pot of British, American, Belgian and Japanese cuisines.

## Unique laws enforced in Hakone

### Trick-or-treating

In this city (and this even applies to the whole state of Hakone), children may only "trick-or-treat" from 17:30 to 24:00 on 31 October. If 31 October is a Sunday, in this case, they must trick-or-treat on 30 October during the same time interval, but not 1 November. This applies to children below the age of 13.

### Employees forbidden on 31 October and on 1 November

Employees are prohibited to work in offices or in businesses on 31 October and on 1 November, to protect Kawagoeland's long tradition of Halloween, but they may open on other public holidays. McDonald's and KFC restaurants in Hakone complied with this rule, opening on 25 December but not on 31 October.

## Companies

* Hakone Film Factory Co., Ltd. (箱根映画工場株式会社) -- Founded in 1931, this company distributed the Russian films *Circus* as *Dream Circus* (夢の馬戲團 *Yume no maheiton*) and *Tanya* as *The Magical World of Tanya* (ターニャの魔法の世界 *Tānya no mahō no sekai*). This company also produced *Akko-chan in Hakone City* with Toei Animation Kawagoeland.
* Hakone Animation Factory (箱根動画工場)
* Toei Animation Kawagoeland Co., Ltd. (東映アニメーション川越国株式会社) -- A 100% subsidiary of Toei Animation Co., Ltd. of Japan, it is the first subsidiary of Toei Animation, opened in 1965, and notable for being contracted in *Saint Seiya* and also produced Kawagoeland-only Halloween specials based on Toei "Majokko" magical girl series (in association with the Hakone Animation Factory and Shizuka Productions), which were released in Japan on DVD in 2016.