2018/09/25: Hakone - The Tokaido Rd & Tozan Railway

Day 12: The Hakone area is in our back yard when we are in Japan so it's a place we always visit. On this trip we planned to walk the old Tokaido Rd. from Lake Ashi to Hakone Yumoto. The weather was so bad though we bailed and caught a bus when we were half way there! At Yumoto we caught the Tozan Mt. Railway to Gora where we would spend the night. The Tozan Mt Railway is the steepest regular rail railway in Japan with grades of 8% in places. To get up the mountain the train goes through 3 switchbacks at each switchback the driver and conductor exit the train and change places from front to back.