The is a mountain railway in Japan operated by the Hakone Tozan Railway. The company belongs to the

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, which also owns the

Hakone Tozan Cable Car The , officially the , is a funicular railway in the town of Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by , who also operate the Hakone Tozan mountain railway line. The company belongs to the Odakyū Group. The funicular links Gōra, t ...

. The section of the line from

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Hakone-Yumoto Station is a railway station on the Hakone Tozan Line in Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan. Lines Hakone-Yumoto Station is served by the Hakone Tozan Line from to , although all Hakone Tozan Line trains start from this station, and only Odakyu services operate ...

began operating in 1919, with the current terminus of Gōra being reached in 1930. Since 2006, only

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trains run on the section from

, as that section was converted from dual-gauge (standard and narrow) to just narrow-gauge. From Gora, travelers can continue up the mountain on the

. The railway is capable of climbing one meter vertically for every 12.5 meters of horizontal distance, a maximum gradient of 8%. The line traverses

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, so the line was carefully designed to limit the impact on scenery. Due to the difficult topography, the line has three switchbacks used to ascend particularly steep sections. The section of the line between Hakone-Yumoto and Gora was suspended in October 2019 due to heavy damage caused by

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. On July 9th 2020, after repairs had been completed, test trains began running over the line with the expectation that full service would be restored on July 23rd.

Description

Tozan ALLEGRA Hakone-yumoto 80permillage

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* Length: * Gauge: ** Odawara - Iriuda: ** Iriuda - Hakone-Yumoto: / ( dual gauge) ** Hakone-Yumoto - Gōra: * Stations: 11 (including termini) * Track: single * Power: ** Odawara - Hakone-Yumoto: 1,500 V DC overhead supply ** Hakone-Yumoto - Gōra: 750 V DC overhead supply * Block system: Automatic (cab signal/digital) (CTC)

Stations

* Trains: "S" = All stop, ", " = All pass. * Transfers: ** At Odawara Station: ***

***

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, Shōnan-Shinjuku Line ***

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*** Izu-Hakone Railway Daiyūzan Line ** At Gōra Station: *** Hakone Tozan Railway -

* Hakone-Yumoto Station is the terminus for all Hakone Tozan Line trains. * On the Odawara - Hakone-Yumoto section, Limited Express "

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" and Local trains run through to and from the Odakyu Odawara Line. ** Odakyu LE, ''Super Hakone'', ''Hakone'' and ''Homeway'' services run from/to Shinjuku Station. ** Odakyu LE ''Metro Hakone'' runs between Hakone-Yumoto and Kita-Senju Station, on

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using 4-car Odakyu EMUs. * Section between Hakone-Yumoto and Gōra is operated by local trains only, using Hakone Tozan 2/3-car EMUs. ** Trains stop at three signal stops which have no passenger platforms. ** There are three switchbacks: Deyama, Ōhiradai, and Kami-Ōhiradai. * Journey time between Odawara - Hakone-Yumoto is approximately 15 minutes, Hakone-Yumoto - Gōra is approximately 40 minutes, Shinjuku - Hakone-Yumoto is approximately an hour and 25–35 minutes by limited express.

Signal stops

There are three signal stops on the Hakone Tozan Line in addition to the regular passenger stations. All of them have a siding track and two of them have switchbacks.

Deyama Switchback

Signal stop with a switchback. 234 m AMSL.

Kami-Ōhiradai Switchback

Signal stop with a switchback near Ōhiradai station which also has a switchback. 359 m AMSL.

Sennindai Signal Stop

Signal stop without a switchback. 410 m AMSL. File:Hakone-Tozan-Deyama-Signal-Sta-1.jpg, Deyama switchback File:Hakone-Tozan-Kami-ohiradai-Signal-Sta.jpg, Kami-Ōhiradai switchback File:Hakone-Tozan-Sennindai-Signal-Sta.jpg, Sennindai signal stop

Rolling stock

Hakone Tozan Railway (Hakone-Yumoto - Gōra)

* MoHa 1 * MoHa 2 * 1000 series ("Bernina", named after the

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Line in Switzerland) * 2000 series ("St. Moritz") * 3000 series (since November 2014) * 3100 series two-car EMU (since May 2017) * MoNi 1 (non-revenue car) All trains are based at Iriuda Depot.

Former

* MoHa 3 * Yu 1 (as

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)

Odakyu Electric Railway (Shinjuku - Odawara - Hakone-Yumoto)

Romancecar EMUs

* Odakyu 7000 series LSE * Odakyu 10000 series HiSE *

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Odakyu 30000 series EXE The , branded "EXE/EXEα" ("Excellent Express/Excellent Express Alpha"), is an electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by the private railway operator Odakyu Electric Railway in Japan on Odakyu Odawara Line and Odakyu Enoshima Line " Rom ...

* Odakyu 50000 series VSE *

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(also from Kita-Senju)

Commuter EMUs

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* Odakyu 5000 series *

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History

Hakone Tozan Rail Line Kanagawa Prefecture Japan

* October 1, 1888: Odawara Horse-drawn Railway opens from Kōzu Station via Odawara Station, to Hakone-Yumoto Station. * October 31, 1896: Operating company name is changed to Odawara Electric Railway. * March 21, 1900: Line is electrified (as a tram, 600 V DC). * June 1, 1919: Line opens between Hakone-Yumoto and Gōra as an electrified (600 V DC)

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railway. * December 16, 1920: Tram line closes between Kōzu - Odawara, and connected with the JGR (now JR)

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at Odawara. * August 16, 1928: Hakone Tozan Railway is founded. * October 1, 1935: Mainline railway is extended from Hakone-Yumoto to Odawara. Tram line remains between Odawara - Hakone-Itabashi, and is renamed the "Odawara Town Line". * December 20, 1940: Tram section is renamed "Odawara City Line". * June 1, 1948: Hakone Tozan Railway becomes part of the Odakyu Group. * August 1, 1950: Odakyu Electric Railway begins operating Limited Express and Express trains from Shinjuku to Hakone-Yumoto. The line voltage is changed to 1,500 V DC for the dual gauge section between Odawara and Hakone-Yumoto. * June 1, 1956: Odawara City Line (tram) is abandoned. * July 14, 1993: Hakone-Yumoto - Gōra section is uprated from 600 to 750 V DC. Operations start using 3-car EMUs. * March 18, 2006: Hakone Tozan Railway discontinues operation using its own units between Odawara and Hakone-Yumoto. Dual-gauge section reduced to Iriuda - Hakone-Yumoto. * March 15, 2008: New Odakyu "

" through service starts from Kita-Senju Station. * October 12, 2019: The section between Hakone-Yumoto and Gora closed due to severe damage caused by

. The heavy rains caused landslides over the tracks and washed away

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. In November 2019, the railway announced that repairs would keep the line closed until the fall of 2020. *On July 9th 2020, test trains began running on the fixed line with services scheduled to begin on July 23rd.

Microsoft Train Simulator

This route appears in ''

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'' complete with scenarios simulating prototypical operation (Only from Odawara to Hakone-Yumoto).

References

External links

Hakone Tozan Railway Official Site

(Odakyu official sightseeing guide, in English) {{Odakyu transit Lines of Hakone Tozan Railway Hakone, Kanagawa Railway lines opened in 1919 Standard gauge railways in Japan 750 V DC railway electrification Railways with Zig Zags