Mt. Fuji, Hakone, and Owakudani Photo Gallery
| Mount Fuji | ||
With its beautiful conic shape, Mt. Fuji is 3,776 m high and is the highest mountain in Japan. Mt. Fuji has often been selected as the subject for paintings and literature. At the foot of Mt. Fuji, there are the Five Lakes of Fuji, the Aoki-ga-hara Sea of Forest that is dark even during the day, as well as Kitaguchi-Hongu Fuji-Sengen Shrine that was constructed to calm the eruption of Mt. Fuji. The Fire Festival of Yoshida, held at the end of the year as a ritual of closing the climbing season for Mt. Fuji, is one of the three most peculiar festivals in Japan.Mt. Fuji has long been the center for the mountain worship of ancient Japan. Today, it is a popular mountain to climb, and many people climb Mt. Fuji to watch the sunrise (called Goraiko) from the top. | ||
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| Owakudani Natural Hot Springs | ||
Owakudani is the area around a crater created in the last eruption of Mt. Hakone 3000 years ago. Hot springs and sulphurous fumes are plentiful. Eggs boiled in the hot springs are said to prolong one's life by seven years and are readily available for sale. | ||
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| Park in Hakone | ||
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To re-use these photos or notify of errors, please let me know . Thank you.
All date from April 7,2003.
