ABSTRACT
The western part of the range is wild and rugged, little inhabited, and even very difficult traveling; but the region around lake Hakone is perfectly accessible, and is one of the loveliest parts of Japan—not grand, but of the sort of gentle beauty that is peculiarly Japanese. The range is full of memories of feudal times, of fightings and surprises around and over the Hakone pass; and it is also full of hot springs, and therefore of hotels and resorts for invalids and pleasure-seekers, for, wherever there is hot water, there the Japanese are sure to go. The hotels are all Japanese, but they can provide more or less European food, if desired. Kodzu station stands just back from the edge of a little bluff at the upper end of Odawara bay, famed through Japan for the beauty of its nine-mile curve of smooth sand and the great pines that fringe its line of dunes.
