Ashi lake
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| Photo of Lake Ashi from its southeast side. Mount Fuji can be seen in the background , on the right the red torii of the Hakone Shrine . | ||
| Geographical location | Hakone Township , Kanagawa Prefecture , Kantō , Japan | |
| Drain | Hayakawa → Sagami Bay | |
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| Coordinates | 35 ° 12 ′ 40 " N , 139 ° 0 ′ 10" E | |
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| Altitude above sea level | 725 m TP | |
| surface | 7.03 km² | |
| scope | 19 km | |
| Maximum depth | 40.6 m | |
The Ashi Lake ( Japanese 芦 ノ 湖 , Ashi-no-ko , eng. "Lake of the reeds") is a crater lake on the Japanese main island of Honshū . It is located in the west of Kanagawa Prefecture in the area of the municipality of Hakone and belongs to the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park . The lake was formed about 3000 years ago after the last eruption and partial collapse of the Hakone-yama volcano in its caldera . It is 7.03 km long and reaches a depth of up to 40.6 m.
Lake Ashi is a popular tourist destination due to its good transport links and the beautiful view of the Fuji volcano . There is a regular ferry service that crosses the lake in a north-west-south-east direction. Some of the ferries are designed like pirate ships. On the north shore of the lake is the Tōgendai valley station of the Hakone cable car , which leads over the volcanic valley Ōwakudani to Sōunzan, the mountain station of the Hakone-Tozan funicular . The Hakone-Komagatake cable car runs from the east bank to the Komagatake, one of the main cones of the Hakone. There are numerous hiking trails around the lake.
The first character is written as usual in Chinese, 
( 芦 ), with a slightly angled second horizontal line from above, instead of - as usual in Japanese - parallel to the others.
photos
View from the Komagatake volcanic cone
Ferry designed as a pirate ship
View from Kojiri Pass
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 湖沼 面積 . (PDF; 114 kB) (No longer available online.) Kokudo Chiriin , October 1, 2015, archived from the original on August 5, 2016 ; Retrieved August 5, 2016 (Japanese).
- ↑ a b 日本 の 主 な 湖沼 . (No longer available online.) MLIT , 2002, archived from the original on September 12, 2013 ; Retrieved September 15, 2013 (Japanese).