It was born in 1919 for the Tokyo elite, when the mountain railway reached it.
Unlike the other sixteen onsen of Hakone, which grew up around springs discovered over the centuries, Gōra is a twentieth-century creation: before 1912 it did not exist as a hot spring resort. With the arrival of the Hakone Tozan mountain railway in 1919, the land was divided into plots and Tokyo politicians and industrialists began building large summer villas there; it is from those villas, not from an old village, that the present-day town grew. Today it has 46 springs of its own.
A hot spring area developed from 1912 onwards on the slope above Miyanoshita; it officially joined the seventeen onsen of Hakone in 1919 with the opening of the mountain railway.
ℹ️ The area is always accessible; the ryokan offer day bathing with their own hours. Terminus of the Hakone Tozan rack railway and station for the funicular to Owakudani.
🚉 Gōra · 1 min walk
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