Ogawa Kazumasa - Schwefelquellen bei Miyanoshita

Hakone KurotamagoChaya and OwakudaniStation 20060501

is an ''

onsen In Japan, are the country's hot springs and the bathing facilities and traditional inns around them. As a volcanically active country, Japan has many onsens scattered throughout all of its major islands. There are approximately 25,000 hot ...

'' in the town of

Hakone is a town in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. , the town had a population of 11,293 and a population density of 122 persons per km². The total area of the town is . The town is a popular tourist destination due to its many hot springs and views of ...

Kanagawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kana ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. The hot springs have been an attraction for tourists and pleasure-seekers for hundreds of years going back to the beginning of the

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...

. The town is situated on a plateau in the Haya River valley. Miyanoshita is one of the Seven Hot Springs of Hakone (''Hakone Nanayu''). During his tour of Japan in 1873 the

Emperor Meiji , also called or , was the 122nd emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession. Reigning from 13 February 1867 to his death, he was the first monarch of the Empire of Japan and presided over the Meiji era. He was the figur ...

stayed at a hotel here. The town is also home to the

Sōtō Sōtō Zen or is the largest of the three traditional sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism (the others being Rinzai and Ōbaku). It is the Japanese line of the Chinese Cáodòng school, which was founded during the Tang dynasty by Dòngshān L ...

temple Jōsen-ji.

References

Nagasaki University Library; Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period, "Miyanoshita Spa (4)"
Accessed 22 December 2006.

External links

Official website

Hakone portal websiteHakone Onsen
Tourist attractions in Kanagawa Prefecture Spa towns in Japan Landforms of Kanagawa Prefecture Hakone, Kanagawa Populated places in Kanagawa Prefecture Hot springs of Japan {{Kanagawa-geo-stub

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