Hakone Tozan Tetsudō

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Hakone Tozan Tetsudō KK
legal form Kabushiki-gaisha
(joint stock company)
founding August 13, 1928
Seat Odawara
Number of employees 279
sales k. A.
Branch Rail transport, tourism
Website Izuhakone Tetsudō
Status: 2018

The Hakone Tozan Tetsudo ( Jap . 箱根登山鉄道 , Hakone Tozan Tetsudo Kabushiki-gaisha ) is a Japanese railway company . Founded in 1928, the Odawara- based company operates a mountain railway and a funicular in western Kanagawa Prefecture . It is a subsidiary of Odakyu Hakone Holdings ( 小田急 箱根 ホ ー ル デ ィ ン グ ス ). These in turn summarize the business activities of the Odakyu Group in the region around the Hakone volcano .

Companies

Hakone Tozan Line
Hakone Tozan Cable Car
Vierge department store
Tram (1952)

The company consists of the following sub-areas:

Then there was the Odawara tram , which existed from 1888 to 1956 . Until 2004, the Hakone Tozan Tetsudō was the main company of a group of companies within the Odakyu Group. Since then it has been a wholly-owned subsidiary of the intervening Odakyu Hakone Holdings , which have a total of more than 1,100 employees and include the following companies outsourced from the railway company:

  • Hakone Tozan Bus: Travel and regular bus services
  • Hakone Kankō-sen: Excursion boat trips on Lake Ashi , restaurants, hotels
  • Hakone Ropeway: Hakone cable car , restaurants, real estate rentals
  • Hakone Facility Development: Management and maintenance of company-owned real estate
  • Hakone Tozan Kankō Bus: Coach transport
  • Hakone Tozan Haiyā: Taxi company
  • Hakone Tozan Total Service: Building cleaning and maintenance, security, petrol stations

history

The predecessor of Hakone Tozan Tetsudō is Odawara Basha Tetsudō ( 小田原 馬車 鉄 道 ), founded on February 21, 1888 . This company built a horse-drawn tramway that connected Kōzu with Odawara and Hakone-Yumoto within six months . It was 12.9 km long and had a track width of 1372 mm. The main purpose of the line, opened on October 1, 1888, was to establish a connection to the Tōkaidō main line at Kōzu station , which at that time circumnavigated the Hakone volcanic massif in the north and thus did not open up the important city of Odawara. On October 15, 1896, the company was renamed Odawara Denki Tetsudō ( 小田原 電 気 鉄 道 ) to indicate the upcoming conversion to an electric tram . This project was completed on March 21, 1900.

In 1912 construction began on the mountain railway between the Hakone-Yumoto tram terminus and Gōra , but it stalled because of the First World War . With a delay of several years, the Hakone-Tozan line was opened on June 1, 1919. As a result of the commissioning of a new section of the Tōkaidō main line, the parallel tram section Kōzu – Odawara was shut down on December 6, 1920. Almost a year later, on December 1, 1921, the Odawara Denki Tetsudō opened the Hakone Tozan Cable Car ; this funicular connects to the mountain railway in Gōra station and leads to higher parts of Hakone. In the Great Kanto earthquake on September 1, 1923, all three railways suffered severe damage and were then out of service for a long time. During the reconstruction, the tram was switched to standard gauge (1435 mm), its gauge was the same as that of the mountain railway.

On January 20, 1928, the Odawara Denki Tetsudō merged with the electricity company Nippon Denryoku . As early as August 13, 1928, this transferred all business areas except electricity production to the railway company, which became independent on the same day and now appeared under the name Hakone Tozan Tetsudō. To shorten the way to the valley station, she extended the Hakone-Tozan line from Hakone-Yumoto to Odawara station on October 1, 1935. At the same time, it limited the tram to the urban area. Due to rationalization measures, the trams and funiculars had to temporarily cease operations at the end of the Second World War .

The independence of Hakone Tozan Tetsudō ended on June 1, 1948, when it was taken over by the Odakyū Dentetsu railway company , the parent company of today's Odakyu Group . The new owner wanted to run direct trains from Tokyo-Shinjuku to Hakone-Yumoto. For this purpose, they built a three -rail track on the flatter lower section of the mountain railway between Odawara and Hakone-Yumoto , on which Odakyū trains also ran from August 1, 1950. On the other hand, the remainder of the tram had to give way to the expansion of National Road 1 on May 31, 1956 . In the 1950s and early 1960s, fierce competition raged with the Izuhakone Tetsudō for the further tourist development of the Hakone region, accompanied by numerous legal proceedings. In the course of this dispute, the Hakone Tozan Tetsudō offered excursion boats on Lake Ashi from 1950 , nine years later they opened the Hakone cable car .

Hakone Tozan Tetsudō has had a partnership with the Rhaetian Railway in Switzerland since 1979 (the Bernina Railway once served as a model for the construction of the Hakone-Tozan Line). In addition to the exchange of railway technology experience, tourism and cultural cooperation is particularly fostered. As a result of the long-lasting economic crisis after the “ bubble economy ” burst , passenger numbers began to decline in the 1990s, which is why the Odakyu Group undertook a profound reorganization. On October 1, 2002, it spun off the bus operation that had existed since 1913 to the new company Hakone Tozan Bus . Further business fields were transferred to several other companies of the newly created Odakyu Hakone Holdings on October 1, 2004 . Since then, Hakone Tozan Tetsudō is no longer the parent company, but a subsidiary in full ownership of the holding , which in turn is subordinate to the Odakyu Group.

Web links

Commons : Hakone Tozan Tetsudō  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 会 社 概要. Hakone Tozan Tetsudō, 2018, accessed January 1, 2019 (Japanese).
  2. ↑ 小田急 箱根 グ ル ー プ 組織 図. (Organization chart). Odakyu Hakone Holdings, 2018, accessed January 1, 2019 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ a b 登山 電車 へ の 道. Hakone Tozan Tetsudō, 2018, accessed January 1, 2019 (Japanese).
  4. ↑ a b c d e 箱根 登山 鉄 道 の 歴 史. Hakone Tozan Tetsudō, 2018, accessed January 1, 2019 (Japanese).
  5. ↑ RhB locomotive in the design of the sister line. Rhaetian Railway , August 3, 2010, accessed on January 1, 2019 .