Hakone-Itabashi Station Explained

Hakone-Itabashi Station
Native Name:	箱根板橋駅
Native Name Lang:	ja
Address:	Itabashi-aze Yabuta 150-2, Odawara, Kanagawa
Country:	Japan
Owned:	Hakone Tozan Railway
Operator:	Odakyu Electric Railway
Line:	Hakone Tozan Line
Opened:	1935

is a railway station on the Hakone Tozan Line located in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is 1.7 rail kilometers from the line's terminus at Odawara Station.

History

Hakone-Itabashi Station was opened on 10 October 1935, when the Hakone Tozan Railway (founded 1928) changed its Odawara - Hakone-Yumoto tram line to a railway.

Station numbering was introduced in January 2014 with Hakone-Itabashi being assigned station number OH48.^{[1] [2]}

On 1 April 2024, operations of the station came under the aegis of Odakyu Hakone resulting from restructuring of Odakyu Group operations in the Hakone area.^[3]

Lines

• Hakone Tozan Railway
  • Hakone Tozan Line

Building

Hakone-Itabashi station has an island platform and a side platform serving three tracks; however, the side platform is not in use.

Platforms

Bus services

• Hakone Tozan Bus
  • "H" line for Hakone Machi Ko (Lake Ashi) via Hakone Yumoto Station, Miyanoshita, Kowakidani Station, Kowaki-en, Moto Hakone Ko (Hakone Shrine), Hakone Checkpoint^[4]
  • "T" line for Togendai (Lake Ashi) via Hakone Yumoto Station, Miyanoshita, Sengoku (transfer for JR Gotemba Station & Gotemba Premium Outlets)^[4]
  • for Odawara Station^[5]
• Izu Hakone Bus
  • "J" & "Z" lines for Hakone Checkpoint (Lake Ashi) via Hakone Yumoto Station, Miyanoshita, Kowakidani Station, Kowaki-en, Moto Hakone (Hakone Shrine), Kojiri
  • for Odawara Station

External links

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

35.2454°N 139.1448°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: 24 December 2013 . 2014年1月から駅ナンバリングを順次導入します！ . From January 2014, station numbering will be introduced sequentially! . https://web.archive.org/web/20221026092741/http://www.odakyu.jp/program/info/data.info/8052_1284200_.pdf . 26 October 2022 . 9 January 2023 . odakyu.jp . ja.
2. Web site: Kusamichi . Yoshikazu . 28 December 2013 . 小田急グループ、鉄道から海賊船まで通しの駅番号…2014年1月から順次導入 . Odakyu Group, station numbers from railways to pirate ships, Introduced sequentially from January 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200622180450/https://response.jp/article/2013/12/28/213984.html . 22 June 2020 . 10 January 2023 . Response Automotive Media . ja.
3. Web site: Odakyu Hakone Holdings Co., Ltd. . 24 January 2024 . 小田急箱根グループの組織再編に関するお知らせ . Notice regarding reorganization of Odakyu Hakone Group . Japanese.
4. https://cops.ssl-odakyu.jp/www.hakone-tozanbus.co.jp/pdf/20191228-10112-001001.pdf Bus stop timetable for "H" and "T" line, Hakone Machi Ko and Togendai (Hakone Tozan Bus)
5. https://cops.ssl-odakyu.jp/www.hakone-tozanbus.co.jp/pdf/20191228-10112-002001.pdf Bus stop timetable for Odawara Station (Hakone Tozan Bus)