Live Webcams in Hakone

Hakone, the hot-spring resort in the mountains west of Tokyo, is where the capital goes to breathe, and the live webcams in Hakone show the way there and back: front windows of trains, leaving the steaming valleys and wooded hills and running down through the suburbs into the towers of Shinjuku, a ride of some 85 minutes on the limited express. Hakone keeps Japan Standard Time, UTC+9, with no daylight saving, so a morning departure from the hills runs around 00:00 UTC and the evening return lands in the European afternoon. The town sits inside the caldera of an old volcano, with Lake Ashi on the crater floor at 723 metres and Mount Fuji rising over the rim on clear days. November brings the maples; winter mornings bring the sharpest Fuji.