Odakyu Hakone

Odakyu Hakone Co., Ltd. (株式会社小田急箱根, Kabushiki Gaisha Odakyū Hakone) is a transportation company headquartered in Odawara, Japan and is a part of the Odakyu Group. It is best known for its operation of the Hakone Tozan Line, the first mountain railway in Japan. Like most Japanese railway companies, it also operates bus services, namely the Hakone Tozan Bus. It also operates the connecting Hakone Tozan Cable Car.^[1]^[2]

The Odakyu Hakone company was formed on 1 April 2024 as part of a larger restructuring of Odakyu Group operations in the Hakone area. It is a merger of several transportation, real estate, and sightseeing business, including the Hakone Tozan Railway company, which operated the Hakone Tozan Line. All companies were subsidiaries of the Odakyu Group prior to the merger and held under the Odakyu Hakone Holdings company, the latter of which was also folded into the merger.^[3]

References

^ "Hakone Tozan replaces funicular trainsets". Railway Gazette International. 23 March 2020. Archived from the original on 8 August 2020. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
^ "Hakone Tozan Railway". Railway Gazette International. Archived from the original on 23 July 2020. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
^ 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] (PDF) (in Japanese).