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