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Mt. Komagatake
Mt. Komagatake, 1,357m. (4,452 ft.) above sea level, is the second
highest peak of the Hakone mountains. |
Owakudani
Owakudani is the site of past volcanic activities of Mt. Kamiyama
(1,438m; 4,718 ft.), the highest peak of the Hakone mountains. Even
now, a mixture of steam and sulfurous gas gushes from numerous reddish
brown fumaroles. |
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Site of the Hakone Barrier
A checkpoint was set up at the Hakone Pass on the Tokaido Highway
by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1619. Reconstructed inspectors' offices
and life-size mannequins show how travelers were inspected at the
checkpoint at that time. |
Hakone Shrine
Believed to have been built in 757, the historic Hakone Shrine consists
of a vermilion-lacquered main building of distinctive character,
surrounded by old Japanese ceder and other trees. |
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Owaku-dani
The name means"Valley of the Greater Boiling". "Greater"is the crater
of old Hakone-san volcano. Steam pours out of the ground in several
places, and gray mud boils endlessly at another. The hot water is
used to at one place to hard-boil eggs
which are then sold. |
Lake Ashino-ko
Lake Ashino-ko is touted as the primary
attraction of the Hakone region, but it's Mt.Fuji, with its snow-clad
slopes glimmering on the water, that lends the lake its poetry. |
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