Mount Myōjō or Myōjōgatake () is a mountain with an altitude of 924 meters on the border of Odawara and Hakone, Kanagawa, as one of the ancient sommas on Mount Hakone's old outer rim. It is part of Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. Although it is a low mountain of less than 1,000 meters in Hakone, it looks high from Odawara, with the Evening Star shining above it, so it got its name "Myojo" which means the Evening or

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. The trail from this mountain to

Mount Kintoki Mount Ashigara (足柄山), also known as Mount Kintoki (金時山), is the northernmost peak of the Hakone caldera, on the border of Kanagawa and Shizuoka prefectures, in the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park in Japan. Ashigara is not a remnant of ...

via Mount Myōjin (Kanagawa) is one of the most popular hiking trails in Mount HakoneMt. Myojo and Mt. Myojin course (Hakone-japan.com
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Burning of the Character Big The Burning of the Character "Big" (大), also known as Daimonjiyaki () or Daimonji Festival is the Japanese Buddhism, Japanese Buddhist ritual of burning wood in the character "Big" (大), typically in the mountain, on the last day of the 4-day B ...

ritual ( :ja:大文字焼き) is conducted on Mount Myōjin, as part of the Hakone Gora Summer Festival.

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