Chōkoku-no-Mori Station

HistoryOpened1919Previous namesNi-no-Taira (until 1972)Services

Preceding station	Hakone Tozan Railway			Following station
Gōra Terminus		Hakone Tozan Line		Kowakidani towards Hakone-Yumoto

Chōkoku-no-mori Station (彫刻の森駅, Chōkokunomori-eki) is a railway station on the Hakone Tozan Line located in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is 14.3 rail kilometers from the line's terminus at Odawara Station, named after Hakone Open-Air Museum.

History

Chōkoku-no-mori Station was opened on June 1, 1919 as Ni-no-Taira Station (二ノ平駅, Ninotaira-eki). It was renamed to its present name on March 15, 1972 on the opening of the nearby Hakone Open-Air Museum of modern sculpture.

Lines

• Hakone Tozan Railway
  • Hakone Tozan Line

Building

Chōkoku-no-mori Station has two opposed side platforms.

Platforms

1	■ Hakone Tozan Line	Eastbound (For Hakone-Yumoto, Odawara) and Westbound (For Gōra)
2	■ Hakone Tozan Line	(closed)

Bus services

• Hakone Tozan Bus
  • for Kowaki-en (transfer for Moto-Hakone (Lake Ashi) direction), Yunessun, and Ten-yu^[1]
  • for Hakone-Yumoto Station via Kowakidani Station, Miyanoshita, and Ohiradai Station^[1]
  • for Gora Station, Gora Park, Hakone Art Museum (Kōen-Kami Station), Pola Museum of Art, The Little Prince and Saint-Exupéry Museum, Senkyoro-mae (transfer for Togendai (Lake Ashi)), Hakone Venetian Glass Museum, Sengoku (transfer for JR Gotemba Station and Shinjuku Station), Lalique Museum, and Hakone Botanical Garden of Wetlands^[2]
  • for Gora Station, Miyagino (transfer for Togendai (Lake Ashi)), Hakone Venetian Glass Museum, Sengoku (transfer for Shinjuku Station), Otome Toge, Gotemba Premium Outlets, and JR Gotemba Station^[3]

References

External links

• Hakone Tozan Railway Official Site
• Hakone Tozan Bus Official Site

35°14′47.30″N 139°3′2.97″E / 35.2464722°N 139.0508250°E / 35.2464722; 139.0508250