It reads はこねまち — Hakone Machi. This is one of the harder names in the country: small municipalities are exactly where Japan's nandoku chimei (難読地名, "hard-to-read place names") live.
This place is one of 1,651 in Chimei, our Japan city game. Read the kanji, then pin it on the map.
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Hakone is a town in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2023, the town had a population of 10,965, and total area of 92.82 km2 (35.84 sq mi).
Measured as real great-circle distance from Hakone.
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箱根町 is read はこねまち (Hakone Machi). It is a town in Kanagawa Prefecture.
町 means "town" and is read chō / machi. A town. 町 is read either chō or machi — which one is local convention, and it varies by region. This is one of the classic traps in Japanese place names.
Hakone has a population of 10,925 across 93 km², making it the 1108th largest of Japan's 1,651 municipalities and the 27th largest of the 31 in Kanagawa.
The closest municipalities to Hakone are Yugawara Machi (9 km), Manazuru Machi (11 km), Susono Shi (11 km).