History
Sōunzan Station opened on 1 December 1921 as the first-generation Kami-Gōra Station on the Hakone Tozan Cable Car. It was renamed Sōunzan on 10 July 1926. As part of wartime materiel rationing the cable car was suspended as a non-essential line on 11 February 1944 and resumed on 1 July 1950. The Hakone Ropeway opened on 6 December 1959, making the station an interchange between the two modes. The station building was rebuilt as a two-storey reinforced-concrete structure on 27 October 1961. A station renovation completed on 9 July 2020 introduced the new "cu-mo Hakone" facility, with rising platform-edge gates entering service on the cable-car platform. On 1 April 2022 the Hakone Ropeway was absorbed into the Hakone Tozan Railway, so that both lines became part of the company now known as Odakyu Hakone.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-05-18.