Hakone Yumoto

Yugawara Area

Yugawara onsen (Yugawara hot springs) was sung from long ago in Manyoshu (the oldest Japanese anthology) and benefited from the Yugawara volcano which was part of the Hakone volcanic zone. Many distinguished writers and artists have visited here and was the stage of the February 26 incident at Kofuso. In this area you can feel the blessing of nature while experiencing it historic culture.  

35Mt. Makuyama

At the ume plum grove where 4,000 plum trees blossom against the backdrop of the lava wall of the Hakone volcano, a “Ume-no-utage (Plum Feast)” is held every year and the view of Sagaminada from the summit is breathtaking.

40Yugawara Onsen (Yugawara Hot Springs)

The hot springs has a long history and its efficacy has been highly regarded. In the Edo period, it was even ranked as Komusubi (4th highest) of the East in hot springs rankings.

Manazuru Area

Manazuru had thriving industries that took advantage of the blessings of “Geo (earth)” from ancient times, stone industry that utilized the lava, fishing industry that received the favorable effects of the abundant greenery, and lived closely with “Geo”. You can experience Geopark throughout Manazuru

29Coastal Forest and Fish Breeding Waters

People in Manazuru say that because this forest exists, the fish tastes delicious. Please taste for yourself the blessings of “Geo”.

34Manazuru Peninsula Stone Quarry Sites

The majority of the shoreline of Manazuru was not created by sea erosion. In the past, stone was quarried from the Manazuru shoreline and you can see traces of the quarries in various areas of the shoreline (arrow holes).

Odawara Area

The entrance to Hakone Geopark flourished as a castle town from the Sengoku (warring states) era. Odawara-jo Castle and Ishigakiyama ichiya-jo Castle that became the stage of history, used the lava from the activity of the Hakone volcano to make a stone wall and is an area where you can see usage of the geological resources and touch a part of Japan’s history of that era.

22Hayakawa-ishichouba-gun (Stone Quarry Sites)

During the fortification of Edo-jo Castle, this is the remains of where materials for stone walls where cut out from the stone quarry. The ruins of where the rock cutting work took place remain and can tell you what it was like at that time.

23Odawara-jo Castle and Odawara Irrigation Channels

The castle of Hojo that even Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen could not defeat. An empty moat and earth walls remain and currently water from the Odawara Irrigation channels from the Sengoku era flows in the moat.

Minamiashigara Area

The Ashigara Road, Daiyuzan Saijoji Temple, the legend of Kintaro and the dynamic movement of the earth such as the collision of plates, allows you feel the history from the past. This is an area where you can explore the relationship of our predecessors with nature such as the development of industries from the abundant spring waters of the Hakone Volcano and the flood control works of the Sakawagawa River.

Mi 2 Mt. Yaguradake

About 1.15 million years ago, magma far beneath the earth cooled and solidified and was projected to an elevation of 870 meters above sea level by the force of plates and is a very new plutonic rock mountain in the world.  

Mi 3 Yuhi-no-taki Falls

The area around the falls is said to be the birthplace of Kintaro and it is said that Kintaro took his first baby bath in these falls. It is a powerful waterfall created by the force of the fault and erosion by the river.