Hakone, Miyanoshita, Mt. Fuji

“At Hakone village, a single street of thatched houses bordering the shore of Hakone lake, the narrow footpath over the hills joins the true Tokaido, a stone paved highway shaded by double rows of trees, a forest aisle recalling, for a brief journey, the avenue to Nikko.”

Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, Jinrikisha Days in Japan, (New York, 1891) p. 191