Saturday, March 5, 2011

Lake Ashi at the foot of Mount Fuji

Lake Ashi, Hakone one of the icons. executive summary by Stanley Subari from Amir Sodikin


That afternoon, the bus we were riding in the event of Fuji Xerox Media Tour has arrived in Hakone. A landscape continuing to follow our bus is the peak of Mount Fuji, which is always closed cloudy.


"Tomorrow morning I hope the weather is sunny and we could clearly see Mount Fuji," said tour guide hope. Yes, it would be futile if no trip to Hakone Mount Fuji.


Hakone is a small town in the district Ashigarashimo, that are in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The total area of Kanagawa is only about 92.82 square kilometers with a population according to statistics in 2010 was 13,339 inhabitants.


Symbols tourism is a view of Mount Fuji Hakone and Lake Ashi. The location of two tourist destinations in Japan including this most crowded close together.

You could say, Hakone is the richest tourist sites tourist object. Known for its beautiful natural scenery and objects bath of warm water.

To start the journey, can be directly started from Owakudani, one of the best places to get a clear view of Mount Fuji. In Owakudani there are also typical of the famous foods, namely egg-black Kuro Tamago immediately boiled in boiling water naturally smells of sulfur.



Black eggs boiled in the sulfur-scented water is also believed to surrounding people can extend life for those who eat them. Believe it, can not of course.

Do not forget, if you've arrived at Hakone, we can enjoy the ropeway or cable car. Hakone claims, their cable railway is the busiest in the world. Hakone cable car is always passing every minute, with a total cable car is 48 units.

The claim was not groundless because it has received a certificate from Guinness World Records as the "gondola lift busiest" in 2009. Not only that, in 1960, cable car they get a certificate longest cable railway which reached four kilometers.

From Station to Station Togendai Sounzan takes about 30 minutes. From the top cable car here we can clearly see the snow-clad peak of Mount Fuji, Lake Ashi is also a blue surface of the crystal.


Beautiful scenery in the fall, 19 November, also clearly visible from the top cable car. The beauty of Hakone from the cable railway will be connected with a tour across Lake Ashi through nuanced war replica pirate ship.

Lake Ashi was formed from two large explosions of Mount Hakone in approximately 180,000 years ago, and 49000-60000 years ago.

The explosion formed a crater and is now the lake is unique because it never freezes even though the winter time the air temperature reaches tens of degrees Celsius below zero. (Amir Sodikin)

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