The entrance gate to the Hakone Checkpoint (箱根関所, Hakone Sekisho) in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The checkpoint on the Tōkaidō was operated during the Edo period (1619–1869) to monitor travellers and the transport of goods along the main overland route between Edo and Kyoto; the present-day building is a historical reconstruction dating from 2007