Hakone, Kanagawa

Hakone (箱根町, Hakone-machi) is a Japanese city in Kanagawa Prefecture on the island of Honshū.[1]

Hakone

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History

Hakone — ukiyo-e woodblock print by Hiroshige, circa 1830s

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.[2]

Related pages

The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō

References

Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Hakone" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 279.
Nussbaum, "Tōkaidō" at p. 973.

Other websites

http://www.kanagawa-kankou.or.jp/english/area/hakone.html Archived 2008-04-16 at the Wayback Machine, http://www.kanagawa-kankou.or.jp/index.html Archived 2012-01-26 at the Wayback Machine

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[1] Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Hakone" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 279.

[2] Nussbaum, "Tōkaidō" at p. 973.