Railway station in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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.
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.[1]
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Building
Chōkoku-no-mori Station has two opposed side platforms.
Bus services
- Hakone Tozan Bus
- for Kowaki-en (transfer for Moto-Hakone (Lake Ashi) direction), Yunessun, and Ten-yu[2]
- for Hakone-Yumoto Station via Kowakidani Station, Miyanoshita, and Ohiradai Station[2]
- 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[3]
- 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[4]
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35°14′47.30″N 139°3′2.97″E / 35.2464722°N 139.0508250°E / 35.2464722; 139.0508250
