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The Hakone Pass (), is a
Hakone Pass Roadside Station
(in Japanese)
Web Camera at Hakone Pass: Toward East/Lake Ashi & Toward West/Kannami (Hakone Town Tourist Association)
in Japanese Hakone, Kanagawa Kannami, Shizuoka Tokaido (region) Mountain passes of Japan Sagami Province Suruga Province
The Hakone Pass (), is a mountain pass
A mountain pass is a navigable route through a mountain range or over a ridge. Since mountain ranges can present formidable barriers to travel, passes have played a key role in trade, war, and both Human migration, human and animal migration t ...
located between Hakone, Kanagawa, and Kannami, Shizuoka, Japan
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. It is in the Hakone Mountains and its elevation, 846 meters above sea level.
General
The Hakone Pass has been an important pass that must be crossed for transportation between Kanto andKansai
The or the lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshū. The region includes the prefectures of Nara, Wakayama, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyōgo and Shiga, often also Mie, sometimes Fukui, Tokushima and Tottori. The metropoli ...
, Japan's two population centers, and is described in Hakone Station of Hokusai
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's Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō. Today, National Route 1 passes through it, although the new Tomei Expressway Tomei may refer to:
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completely bypasses it by going via Gotenba between the Hakone Mountains and Mount Fuji
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.
Nearby the pass is Hakone Pass Roadside Station, owned by Hakone Town.(in Japanese)
Transportation
* National Route 1 * Hakone Shindō *Ashinoko Skyline ( :ja:芦ノ湖スカイライン) *Shizuoka Prefectural Route 20 ( :ja:静岡県道20号)See also
* Hakone BarrierReferences
External links
{{Commons category, Hakone PassWeb Camera at Hakone Pass: Toward East/Lake Ashi & Toward West/Kannami (Hakone Town Tourist Association)
in Japanese Hakone, Kanagawa Kannami, Shizuoka Tokaido (region) Mountain passes of Japan Sagami Province Suruga Province