Nanamagari (七曲り)

Nanamagari, meaning seven bends, is the run of hairpins on Kanagawa Prefectural Road 732, the Yumoto Motohakone Line, above Hatajuku in Hakone. Route 732 follows the old Tokaido highway between Hakone-Yumoto and Moto-Hakone and was later part of National Route 1. The Nanamagari climbs beside the Hakone Shindo bypass, which crosses overhead.

In Initial D it is the home course of Team Spiral and the scene of Project D's second to last battle, run in fog after rain in the Fifth Stage anime. Keisuke Takahashi raced Ryuji Ikeda here, then Takumi Fujiwara's AE86 went downhill at night against Hiroya Okuyama's Silvia S15. The course arrives in the arcade games with Initial D Arcade Stage 7 AAX. Forza Horizon 6 has a Hakone Nanamagari touge race in its Nangan region.

The old Tokaido was the main Edo period highway over the Hakone mountains, and the shogunate paved part of it in stone. About 2 km of that original stone paving survives as a walking path near the road.

• Heading uphill, the road leaves the narrow street of Hatajuku, lined with shops selling Hakone yosegi marquetry, and passes under the Hakone Shindo.
• Then the hairpins stack up one after another up the hillside.
• Past the hairpins a short straight runs by the Amazake Chaya teahouse before the road heads on towards Lake Ashi.
• Parts of the road are steeper and narrower than Route 1, with spots where oncoming cars have to give way to each other.
• The stone paved Tokaido footpath runs close to the road.
• Best way to experience it: in your own car or a hire car.

• Motorbikes under 550 cc cannot ride the Hatajuku section up to the Hatajuku footbridge on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM, 1 April to 30 November. Bikes over 125 cc can take the Hakone Shindo instead.
• Kanagawa Prefecture closes Route 732 between Sanmaibashi in Yumoto and Moto-Hakone in heavy rain: 50 mm in an hour, or 200 mm over a spell of rain.
• In the tourist season walkers and cyclists use the road to avoid busy Route 1, including around blind corners.
• Hatajuku has a free car park at the Hatajuku Yosegi Kaikan, about 50 m up the bus road from the Hatajuku bus stop. The Amazake Chaya teahouse past the hairpins has a car park for 20 cars.
• Hakone Tozan buses run along the road between Hakone-Yumoto and Moto-Hakone, and the Hakone Freepass covers them.

• Last verified: 3 November 2026