Hakone Yumoto Bridge
I took today’s photograph near the Hakone Yumoto train station (箱根湯本駅). Our hotel was sort of up around the mountain on the left, near Sounji (早雲寺). There is a nice little walk up and over these mountains from the rear of Sounji.
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