Surely, Hakone must be a Disneyfied idea of Japan, a Potemkin place like Juliet’s balcony in Verona or Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin: iconic representations that everyone seems to have forgotten ...

To see Mt. Fuji you don’t go all the way there. The best views are had from a small mountain resort town called Hakone, about ...

We visit Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture. Once the site of a security checkpoint for traffic in and out of old Tokyo, it evolved into a hot spring resort, now with an increasingly diverse community.