In the Foothills of Mount Fuji

Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park is a national park that straddles Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefecture, Yamanashi Prefecture and Shizuoka Prefecture. This national park consists of four areas: the Mount Fuji area, which is centered on Mount Fuji, which was designated as a World Heritage site in 2013 and includes lakes, ponds and highlands; the Hakone area, which originated as a post station along the Tokaido road and has long been known as a hot spring area; the Izu Peninsula area featuring the Amagi Mountain Range and richly varied coastlines and hot spring resorts closely associated with literature and intellectuals, including The Dancing Girl of Izu by Yasunari Kawabata, a Nobel laureate; and the Izu Islands area that is made up of volcanic islands on the sea, including islands with volcanoes that are still active. According to a survey conducted by the Ministry of the Environment, of about 5.5 million foreign visitors to national parks around the country in 2016, more than half, or 2,577,000 people, visited Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park.
See "In the Foothills of Mount Fuji"HIGHLIGHTING Japan,January 2018.