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17-506: Yugawara is located in the far southwestern corner of the prefecture. The center of the town is located in the lowlands between the southern foot of Mount Hakone and the Sagami Bay . Much of the terrain formed by an eroded Quaternary volcano. In the northeast, bordering Manazuru Town, are gentle foothills where residential areas and mandarin orange fields coexist. In the south, hot spring resorts and residential areas are clustered along

34-496: A major role in the local economy, within easy access from Tokyo. Agriculture and commercial fishing play secondary roles in the local economy. Yugawara has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral town council of 14 members. Yugawara, together with neighboring Manazuru, contributes one member to the Kanagawa Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics,

51-613: Is 2221 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 24.7 °C, and lowest in January, at around 4.2 °C. Per Japanese census data, the population of Yugawara has remained relatively steady over the past 50 years. The major part of the local population is elderly, as Yugawara is famous for resorts catering especially to the elderly. The town has three public elementary schools and one public middle school. A prefectural high school

68-506: Is a complex volcano in Kanagawa Prefecture , Japan that is truncated by two overlapping calderas , the largest of which is 10 × 11 km wide. The calderas were formed as a result of two major explosive eruptions about 180,000 and 49,000–60,000 years ago. Lake Ashi lies between the southwestern caldera wall and a half dozen post-caldera lava domes that arose along a southwest–northeastern trend cutting through

85-633: Is a scenic lake in the Hakone area of Kanagawa Prefecture in Honshū , Japan . It is a crater lake that lies along the southwest wall of the caldera of Mount Hakone , a complex volcano that last erupted in 1170 CE at Ōwakudani . The lake is known for its views of Mount Fuji , its numerous hot springs , historical sites, and ryokan . The lake is located on the Tōkaidō road, the main link between Kyoto and Tokyo. A number of pleasure boats and ferries traverse

102-662: The Hakone Tozan Line mountain railway for the descent to Odawara and a connection to Tokyo by the Tōkaidō Shinkansen . Visitors can also take the Hakone Sightseeing Cruise with its pirate ships from Togendai to Moto-Hakone Port and Hakone-Machi Port on opposite ends of the lake. The cruise line began in 1950. The name means "lake of reeds" in Japanese: 芦 (ashi) is "reed", and 湖 (ko)

119-520: The 12–13th centuries AD. According to the nearby Hakone Shrine , the Komagatake peak has been the object of religious veneration since ancient times. The geological history of Mount Hakone, has been researched by Dr. Hisashi Kuno et al., with Mount Hakone, located in Hakone, Kanagawa , Japan , as a volcano from the Quaternary period . Mount Hakone started about 500,000 years ago with

136-533: The center of the calderas. Dome growth occurred progressively to the south, and the largest and youngest of them, Mount Kami , forms the high point of Hakone. The calderas are breached to the east by the Haya River canyon. Mount Ashigara is a parasitic cone . The latest magmatic eruptive activity at Hakone occurred 2,900 years ago. It produced a pyroclastic flow and a lava dome in the explosion crater, although phreatic eruptions took place as recently as

153-620: The centuries. Large sections of the Old Tōkaidō road are preserved here. Onshi Park , the summer retreat established in 1886 for the imperial family, is now a public park. Taking the aerial tram Hakone Ropeway to The Great Boiling Valley . From Togendai on Lake Ashi, the Hakone Ropeway aerial tram connects to Sounzan , the upper terminus of the Hakone Tozan Cable Car funicular railway . This in turn connects to

170-480: The eruptions, that created Mount Kintoki and Mount Myōjō on the current "Old outer rim"; and the subsequent eruptions about 160,000 years ago made the "New outer rim", on which are Mount Sengen  [ ja ] and Mount Takanosu (Kanagawa) . From 50,000 years ago, new eruptions further created in the "Central volcanic cones " Mount Kami ( 35°14′00″N 139°01′14″E  /  35.233333°N 139.020556°E  / 35.233333; 139.020556 ),

187-618: The highest peak in Hakone, Mount Koma and other peaks; and about 300,000 years ago, the lava domes such as Mount Futago emerged. Later about 3,000 years ago, the phreatic eruption on the northwest side of Mount Kami caused landslides, creating the Owakudani and, in the huge caldera , the Sengokuhara and Lake Ashi . Lake Ashi Lake Ashi ( 芦ノ湖 , Ashi-no-ko ) , also referred to as Hakone Lake or Ashinoko Lake ,

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204-404: The lake, providing scenic views for tourists and passengers. Several of the boats are inspired by the design of sailing warships. Most visitors to Lake Ashi stay in one of the hotels or ryokan located in the area to visit some of the local attractions. There is also a campsite at the north end of the lake. Hakone Shrine is a shrine that has been visited by shōgun, samurai, and many travelers over

221-535: The north side of the Chitose River. The coastline has a sandy beach with a length of about 700 meters, which is crowded with swimmers in the summer. Kanagawa Prefecture Shizuoka Prefecture Yugawara has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa ) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Yugawara is 14.2 °C. The average annual rainfall

238-529: The six hamlets merged to form Doi village with the establishment of the modern municipalities system. The remaining two hamlets merged to form Yoshihama village. On July 1, 1926, Doi village was elevated to town status, taking the new name of Yugawara. Yoshihama attained town status on April 1, 1940, and merged into Yugawara on April 1, 1955. A planned merger of Yugawara into Odawara in 2005 was rejected by local voters in an August 8, 2004 referendum . Yugawara has many onsen hot spring resorts, and tourism plays

255-541: The town is part of Kanagawa 16th district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . Yugawara has three public elementary schools and one public middle school operated by the town government. The town does not have a high school. [REDACTED] JR East – Tōkaidō Main Line Mount Hakone Mount Hakone ( 箱根山 , Hakoneyama ) , with its highest peak Mount Kami (1,438 meters),

272-635: Was called "Doi County" in Sagami Province . The area was under control of the later Hōjō clan in the Sengoku period , and part of Odawara Domain during the Edo period . After the Meiji Restoration , it was divided into six hamlets, and initially formed part of the short-lived Ashigara Prefecture , before becoming part of Ashigarashimo District of Kanagawa Prefecture. In April 1889, four of

289-461: Was closed in 2008, and high-school students now study in the neighboring city of Odawara . Yugawara offers little night entertainment, though it does have bowling halls, supermarkets, restaurants and pubs. The suburbs of the town provide hotels and apartments for tourists seeking to enjoy hot spring baths, either during vacations or on weekends. During the Kamakura period , the area around Yugawara

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