Immunized: partial opening for Meiji Memorial Garden of Oiso 明治記念大磯邸園

In Oiso Town 大磯町 on the sites of summer houses for former Prime Ministers of Japan, the construction works continue for National Meiji Memorial Garden 明治記念大磯邸園 (; my post on August 14, 2020). The COVID-19 made a havoc for their schedule. I guess they planned to open partially the place before July 2020, as the nearby Oiso Prince Hotel becomes a satellite Olympics Village for Sailing Competition … The actual opening ceremony was held in the Garden last November. Then, another wave of COVID-19 hit the Megalopolis Tokyo. Tourist Information in Oiso Town was closed till 21st of March. Meanwhile the accessible section of the Garden, about 1/4 of the planned space, has been open without entrance fee, during the State of Emergency. Not many people visited there. It was a sort of chance to see the place sans congestion, so I thought. I sneaked in the place early March.

The rice balls I bought for my lunch
 from a shop located in front of the Memorial Garden.
 Pure vegan, and De-Li-Cious!!

This is the shop, called Maru Sho-ya. Please try!

The opened part of the Meiji Memorial Garden is where the summer houses stand for PM Okuma Shigenobu 大隈重信 (8th and 17th PM) and Foreign Minister (1892-1896) Mutsu Munemitsu 陸奥宗光. The current plan also includes the residence of the final Crown Prince of Korean Empire, Prince Yi Un 李垠, (i.e. the summer house of 1st, 5th, 7th, and 10th Japanese PM Ito Hirobumi 伊藤博文). The Crown Prince’s part is currently undergoing complete reconstruction so that we cannot enter the site at all. The west of the Prince’s seat was also a summer house of PM Saionji Kinmochi 西園寺公望 (12th and 14th PM), and later of the 14th Governor of BOJ, Ikeda Shigeaki 池田成彬. The area is at the moment excluded from the plan for Meiji Memorial Garden, but their mansion which is a rare amalgam of Art Deco and English Tudor style, still stands. The rumor is, the site will eventually be included in the National Garden. Let us see …

The map of the Memorial Garden.
 The section with icons of trees and information center is
 open to the public.

The former residence for Prince Yi Un is
 under complete reconstruction.

The mansion standing next to the Crown Prince’s place.
 Yeah, it’s closed.

The two summer houses for PM Okuma and Minister Mutsu are presently closed for earthquake reinforcement work. At least now, between the structures there is no wall or the like at all. We can enjoy the Gardens of these two guys as one. I guess when the houses are open to visitors we will know how two families arranged their neighborhood when they were here ... Compared with Hotel New Otani’s garden in the center of Tokyo we’ve visited before (; my post on September 20, 2019), the Gardens of Okuma and Mutsu are definitely open and relaxed. Indeed, New Otani Garden was the property of viceroy feudal lord Ii 井伊家 who commuted from there to his office in Edo Castle for Tokugawa Shogunate. This one in Oiso was for summer houses. Beyond the forest (and Seisho Bypass Motorway) is the sand beach facing the vast Pacific Ocean. It should have a peaceful atmosphere. Even so, the character of the place might be due to the spirit of the era, rapidly industrializing Japan before the World War I ...

The entrance to opened portion for
 Meiji Memorial Garden of Oiso

PM Okuma’s summer house.
 He loved to have party here every weekend.

Minister Mutsu’s summer house

We walk straight through
 the ocean facing section of PM Okuma’s place,
 and find this Minister Mutsu’s.
 There’s no barrier at all.

Here and there they provide panels
 describing how the owners used this place.
 They provide English version as well.

Since Oiso Town is on the crushing point of Eurasian and Philippines Plates, the beachfront area has creased-up edges of Eurasian Plate as continuous small hills running parallel to the shore. The Garden uses the peculiar geographic feature cleverly. The summer houses stand at the “hill top,” and the rock gardens and planting design expand over the slopes going down and up before descending to the beach. Mutsu’s Garden has an artificial water cascade (which is now dry due to the construction work) with strategically located rocks to recreate “ideal” scenery of deep mountain. The strolling path is surrounded by azaleas, roses, citrus trees, and the others with lawns. Here and there are formidable black pines and camphor trees. A part of the garden has both black and red pines both of which were well taken care of to admire the contrast of black and red trunks. I suppose the gardeners here have been superb as they nurtured beautiful red pines in such a humid sea front. (Red pines normally thrive in dry mountainous area.) This tells wealth and power of the former owners of the Garden.

The Garden. We can go up to the point
 where the sheet covers the route.
 Beyond it is under construction now.

The color contrast of boughs of red and black pines …

I guess this place has lots of flowers of Azalea
 in two months …

Beautiful Camelias

The artificial cascade in Mutsu’s garden.
 I return here when the water flow is resumed …

Minister Mutsu was a protagonist to conclude the first Sino-Japanese War / War of Jiawu (1894-95). Though, at the zenith of his career his tuberculosis became serious, which made him quit the post in 1896. After resignation, he spent long time in his summer house in Oiso, and visited Hawaii for recuperation. Unfortunately, he did not last long and died in 1897. Er, well, Hawaii is, and perhaps was, a paradise on earth. But Mutsu’s Oiso Garden also could have been gorgeous and restful. Why did he have to travel such a long way to Waikiki with his sick lungs …? How was Japan at the turn of the century …? Did people need paradise that much …? I wonder.

One of those formidable camphor trees in the Garden.
 Come to think of it,
 camphor is a tree for aroma therapy and medicine.
 Maybe, they were needed for summer houses of
 ministers spending stressful weekdays in Tokyo …

I then noticed these towering pines have many tags stamped on their trunks. What are they? Some keeps legible words written on them. They say “Immunization, (day)/(month)/(year); Drug name, xxx; Methods of administration, yyy; Administrator, zzz Co.” Wow. They are vaccination passport against pine wilt. I cast my eyes to the outside corner of Okuma’s Garden. There is a tall, but withered pine tree. All the beautiful pines here are struggling to cope with the attack of pine wood nematode … Whatever the Prime Ministers or Diplomatic Treaties, killing diseases by bacterium, nematode, or virus, have been here for more than centuries … When my turn comes, I’m going to be vaccinated against COVID-19!

Immunized!

Or, dying …

This one stood outside the entrance of the Garden.
 Experienced veteran …

Meiji Memorial Garden
Showa Kinen Park Oiso Office, Kanto Regional Bureau,
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism
国土交通省関東地方整備局
国営昭和記念公園事務所大磯分室
Phone: 0463-79-8700

Oiso Town Hall 大磯町役場
183 Higashikoiso, Oiso-cho, Naka-gun, Kanagawa, 255-8555
〒255-8555 神奈川県中郡大磯町東小磯183
Phone: 0463-61-4100
Fax: 0463-61-1991

http://www.town.oiso.kanagawa.jp/isotabi/index.html http://www.town.oiso.kanagawa.jp/oisomuseum/index.html

Quiet conqueror: Yadoriki Water Source Forest, early spring 2021 やどりき水源林

Euptelea polyandra in March 2021 for Yadoriki Forest

The last time I’ve been to Yadoriki Water Source Forest やどりき水源林 was October 2020. The place was under heavy reconstruction from the destruction by typhoons in 2019. Early this month, I’ve returned there. The works are still on-going, but several parts are open to hikers.

Japanese green alder (Alnus firma)
 in March 2021 for Yadoriki Forest

The prefecture has almost completed the repair works for the forestry road from the gate of Water Source Forest. We can walk a paved road almost to the end of the former route. The collapsed section is detoured by a new cutting through the western slope of Mt. Nabewari 鍋割山 (ASL 1272.4m). The debris of landslides 2 years ago still remain, but they definitely become a small part of the course. I think finally families with kids can walk there now. Though, we forest instructors have recognized that the prefecture, i.e. the landlord, does not intend to recover the pavement fully that before reached to the starting point to the trail to Ameyama Pass 雨山峠 (ASL 957m). Anyway, there is undeniably an improvement.

The collapsed part of the previous route is detoured.

The work is still going on …

Yadoriki Stream 寄沢, which caused flash floods and debris flows in 2019, is undergoing a substantial intervention. The Prefectural Office flattened the riverbed with heavy machinery and digging artificial water way in the middle. We seriously doubted how long such synthetic river can last if another monster typhoon hits the area again … In 2019, the Open Space near toilets suffered heavy erosion to be reduced in half. The place is still off-limit. We hope the site becomes accessible by summer holiday. But … could we find a place for kids to play with water, I wonder …?

This is the flattened riverbed.
 We cannot see the stream from this point,
 but a fissure at the foot of these destroyed logs
 is artificially dug water way.

Woooooooow.
 The stream looks like a road now …
 the construction work is going-on.

The afforestation expanded on the western slope of Yadoriki Stream is receiving an intense forestry by thinning cedars and cypresses. The prefecture told us the place is accessible only for professional foresters who contracted the work from the Office. In 2019, Yadoriki Stream was flooded with broken and uprooted afforested trees. So, doing professional forestry up there to stabilize the slope certainly has a good reason. They say the work will continue at least until summer this year. We will be able to have a quiet autumn walk in Hadano Forestry Road 秦野林道 this year …

The trolley line for forestry to the western slope is
 fully operational now.

We found lots of Astraeus sp. as well.
 They love gravelly place so that encountering them
 in Yadoriki of under-construction may not be surprising.

Despite of massive civil engineering, I personally find the nature of Yadoriki Forest is recovering strongly. After the typhoons in 2019, I felt sad to find many decimated points where before beautiful mosses secretly but cheerfully sprouted their capsule to procreate. Now they are coming back, if not fully. Impressive. In Chinese character, mosses are written as 苔. It’s a hieroglyph. The top part which looks like a hat means “row of grasses.” The middle symbolizes “plow”, and the bottom is “mouth.” When a farmer starts his/her work in the spring, the first thing s/he normally does is plowing the ground like opening the mouth of soil. So, the Chinese character for mosses means “it’s the beginning of vegetation.” Yeah. Yadoriki Water Source Forest was covered with mountain debris two years ago. Aside from the endeavor of humans restoring the place, tiny mosses may be quietly taking a lead for the recovery of the forest ... Petit conquerors!

I think, they are Palamocladium leskeoides.
 Such delicate apparitions of mosses were
 gone after monster typhoons of 2019
 … Now, they’re back!

The beloved Racomitrium japonicum are recovering in Yadoriki.
 Hurrah!

If you find environmental issues in Kanagawa Prefecture, please make a contact with Kanagawa Natural Environment Conservation Center 神奈川県自然環境保全センター

657 Nanasawa, Atsugi City, 243-0121
〒243－0121　厚木市七沢657
Phone: 046-248-0323

You can send an enquiry to them by clicking the bottom line of their homepage at http://www.pref.kanagawa.jp/div/1644/

The Plum Orchard: taking care of Ume plum trees in Yokohama

I know I’ll be busy in June. June is the month when Ume plums are harvested. After picking, the fresh fruits must be processed promptly for pickles, liquors, compotes, etc. I’ll be BUSY in the kitchen filled with sweet scents of plums … Though, none of these fruits are from Niiharu Citizen Forest 新治市民の森. Reason is simple. We Lovers of Niiharu 新治市民の森愛護会 have problems to collect enough quantity of Ume plums. It’s not because 70 ha of Niiharu Forest does not have plum orchard. It has 3 orchards of Ume. Nor it’s due to Lovers do not have access to these 3 places. Lovers have requests from the City of Yokohama and the landlord to take care of the sites. Yet none of these places bears adequate fruits.

Though, every year these two Ume trees
 for pink and white flowers are beautiful
 at the entrance of Niiharu Citizen Forest.
 They are private property, not a part of the Citizen Forest.

A tree standing at the entrance of Ikebuchi Open Space いけぶち広場 is the only Ume plum tree producing sufficient plums for about 3 jars of Ume liquor. One of the senior Lovers, a lady who’s in charge of such matters, prepare them in June. During high summer when we spend uber-busy weekends to mow the forest floors, her liquor’s waiting at the end of the day as a prize of hard work. Needless to say, the jars are empty by November. Pity. “You see, we had more Ume fruits until 10 or so years ago.” “Oh, yeah. Niiharu Forest has 3 orchards. We were very busy allocating enough time to collect fruits.” “Why can’t we have such amount of prize these days? They even do not flower much these days.” That’s the problem.

The only productive Ume tree in Niiharu.
 It flowers again this year.
 I hope we can have some fruits from it …

The only profusely flowering Ume orchard in Niiharu, out of three.
 The place too has pretty flowers constantly as this year.
 But the amount of fruits out of them is limited.
 The trees here are for flowers, not fruits、I guess.

Actually, roughly 3 or 4 years ago, the City of Yokohama had a problem of Plum Pox Virus. The disease started in 2009 in Tokyo and spread to Yokohama. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry of Japan, the only possible treatment is to uproot and burn the affected trees. Er … worse than with COVID-19 for humans … The wards in the northeast of Yokohama, Tsurumi 鶴見, Kanagawa 神奈川, and Nishi 西 Wards found the infected trees. The City Office was super-alarmed. The greenery and private gardens there received administrative order to follow the direction of the Ministry. The City also arranged numerous training courses for professional and amateur gardeners how to take care of plum trees under the threat of virus. Hmmmmmm … now that I think about it, it was reminiscent of present-day policies about COVID-19 … Luckily, the other wards of Yokohama, including Midori Ward 緑区 where Niiharu resides, have not received the virus problem for plums, at least so far. But, the hub-bub became a nudge for Lovers to take action for Niiharu’s unproductive plum orchards.

In Japanese proverb, it is said that “The fools who cut cherry trees, the fools who don’t cut plum trees.” Surely, plum trees spread their branches and boughs to whichever direction disorderly as they like. They are often vigorous, if not productive. Left them to their own devices, between late March to early November neglected Ume trees have lots of leaves in a jumbled manner. The condition is certainly of “Closed spaces with poor ventilation; Crowded places with many people leaves nearby; Close-contact settings such as close-range conversations.” It seems to me, many viruses for illness love such conditions … To prevent the spread of plum pox virus, the first line of defense is avoiding such 3-C and wearing masks … er, no, “Prune, prune, PRUNE!”

Hmmmmmmm,
 once the way branches spread reaches this level of “whicheva,”
 it’s something of divine art work …

So, Lovers of Niiharu engaged in pruning Ume orchards last fall. It’s easier said than done, I tell you. Plum is deciduous tree but flowers early starting from January. Their life cycle allows us a tiny window to take care of the mess of branches. That is roughly 2 weeks of October to November, almost immediately after they’ve started shedding their autumn leaves. Inevitably, we abandoned the pruning for the 3rd orchard this time … “Well, trees are there. Give us a break.” The next problem was the method of pruning. All 3 plum orchards in Niiharu produce unsatisfactory yield. Seniors of Niiharu Lovers debated how much pruning to be done and settled with “HEAVY ones!” for the least fruitful orchard. We brought chainsaws in the orchard to cut the main boughs and pruned relentlessly for the remaining branches.

Cut here, here and here!

First, I hesitated, then, it became a sort of pleasure to CUT! “Hey, Naomi, prune that upright branch!” OK. Done, then, “Next one too!” But it looks not so tangled with the other ones … “No, no. You’ll see their next year’s growth surely collides with the neighbors.” Woooooow. With the thunderous sounds of chainsaws, one plum orchard in Niiharu became the place of very shortened trees with sporadic branches. It was a strangely relaxing scenery, with piles of cut boughs and branches on the ground. Will they flower coming spring? I’ve waited.

Hair cut!

We’ve cut this much …

Then, this February, those remaining branches have pretty 5-petal flowers, smelling nice. Hurrah! “It takes several years before we know the result of hard pruning, Naomi.” OK, OK, OK. But the resilient plum tree orchards could resume producing lots of flowers, and then fruits. Maybe it’s after COVID-19 becoming a familiar seasonal ailment, like flu …I keep crossing my fingers for everything.

Wow! Blossomed!

Year 1 after heavy pruning …

If you find a problem in the greenery of north-half of Yokohama, please make a contact with

Office for the Park Greeneries in the North 北部公園緑地事務所
Yokohama Municipal Government Creative Environment Policy Bureau 横浜市環境創造局
Phone: 045-311-2016
FAX: 045-316-8420

Niiharu Administrative Office / Satoyama Exchange Center 新治管理事務所・里山交流センター
Phone: 045-931-4947
Fax: 045-937-0898
Email: info@niiharu.jp
http://www.niiharu.jp/

Going Down the Slippery Slope: Stone-pavement via Hatajuku on the 8 Miles Road of Hakone 箱根八里

Say, you ride a commuter bus around 9:00 from Odawara Station 小田原駅 to Onshi-koen Park 恩賜公園, start walking from there, and reach to Amasake Chaya Café 甘酒茶屋. Probably, it is around 11:30-12:00, lunch time at a nice historical Café with healthy menu, and lots of toilets. Many people decide their hiking is done here and ride a bus to Hakone Yumoto Station 箱根湯本駅 of Hakone Tozan Railway 箱根登山鉄道. Now! Let’s hike from Amasake Chaya to Hakone Yumoto with 8 Miles Road. The number of tourists ahead is smaller, if not “rare”, I tell you. Anyway, the stone paved route from now is relatively less trodden. This makes maneuvering on the road becomes trickier. You may think “?” I tell you why.

From Amasake Chaya,
we go down Prefectural Road 732 a bit to find

a signpost to return to the old pavement.
 The ancient road beyond these steps runs along #732.

Basically, Hakone is the area receiving more rainfall compared with the other places in Kanagawa Prefecture. When we check the up-to-date precipitation data online, Hakone stays in the top 3 spots regularly. The forests of Hakone are the mixture of afforested coniferous ever-greens and broadleaved trees. As we descend, we move to climate warmer and kinder to evergreen hardwoods. Inevitably, the stone-paved route in the forest receives less sun light and humid. If you’re interested in mosses and mushrooms, it’s an exciting place. But, when we plan to pick up the pace of walking, the condition is hazardous for hikers with uneven stones covered with mosses and continuously falling leaves. (Do you know evergreens shed their old leaves year-round?) I tell you, especially from Amasake Chaya, 8 Miles Road of Hakone is very SLIPPERY!

The paved way in a forest

Worse. The road is paved with hard-stone and runs on the precipitous slope of Hakone. If we fail to secure safe landing when we fall, there is a high possibility of suffering severe injury, like broken bones or concussion. Do you remember the photo last week, even before reaching to Amasake Chaya we avoided walk on the center of the paved road? That’s because we felt our knees tired and wanted to lessen the impact of hopping from one stone to another that looked safer. The sides of the paved route keep some ground soil so that it was gentler for foot of long-distance hikers … and the trekking road will be destroyed further because of our stamping … We know the environmental impact of our deeds. So, sorry, but our instinct for self-preservation wins. Now from Amasake Chaya, the number of hikers is smaller, and the space the side of the paved road, created by hikers, is narrower. And we’ve already descended along the stone-tiled route for about 3 hours. We continue 2-3 hours more of this, but harsher condition with hazardous moss-covered stones. You see my point? That’s why it’s so important to choose your shoes for this paved hiking course! I’ve witnessed many hikers before me over there slipped and had hard time to recover from the ground to proceed.

Please don’t get fooled by its “flat” surface …

8 Miles Road itself goes along the Prefectural Road #732. #732 winds quickly for cars to proceed steep slopes of Hakone. Compared to this, 8 Miles Road is for walkers continuing (relatively) straight. We often have to cross #732 and search for petit entrances in another side for 8 Miles Road to proceed. The Prefectural Road is a commuter road used frequently, if not congested, by cars. In this regard, we don’t have to worry too much getting lost. Occasionally we enjoy open mountain scenery of Hakone, of ancient and new volcanos, and Sagami Bay. During autumn, it’s so beautiful with colored slopes over there in yellow, red and green with blue Pacific Ocean ... Although we can here cars are coming next to us, the route is calm and serene in general. The atmosphere compensates our concentration on the moss-covered perilous stones …

Another side after crossing #732 could be some steps like this.
 Just keep on going,
 and soon we return to the 17^th century pavement.

Old and new remnants of massive volcanic eruptions in Hakone,
 seen from the 8 Miles Road.

From Amasake Chaya, the local community called Hatajuku 畑宿 built houses here and there along #732. This is a historical community existing along 8 Miles Road of Hakone. At the beginning of Tokugawa Shogunate 徳川幕府 of the 17th century, theirs was a village of deep mountain where exhausted travelers asked some rest (and toilets!). 100 or so years later, they had cafés where the procession of feudal lords took rest and enjoyed elaborated mountain gardens. They even had (unofficial) brothels. According to one popular TV travelogue named “Bra-Tamori ブラタモリ” aired in October 2018, the Shogunate treated the villagers of Hatajuku well as they were informants watching for suspicious movement in and out of Edo (Tokyo) via Hakone. A-ha. The community of spies, then. In the 21st Century the place is famous as a hamlet of artisans for Hakone Yosegi-zaiku 箱根寄せ木細工.

Ichiri-zuka 一里塚 in Hatajuku.
 “Ichiri-zuka” is a signpost = “Zuka”
 built by Tokugawa Shogunate
 to mark “Ichi-ri” = 3.9km from the previous “Zuka.”
 This is the 23^rd Ichiri-zuka from
   the beginning of Tokaido 東海道,
  Nihonbashi Bridge of Edo (Tokyo) 江戸日本橋
 (the bridge in front of the BOJ).
 This Ichiri-zuka was rebuilt in 2012
 after archeological study of the place.
 Once, such facility was used for travelers
 having a short break under the shade of big tree.

Hatajuku community in 2020

They have public toilets.

It was in the late 18th century when an artisan of Hatajuku named Ishikawa Jin’bei 石川仁兵衛 developed the technique to create craft objects, like jewelry boxes, plates, etc. using the ubiquitous trees in Hakone. I think it now becomes standard souvenirs for tourists to Hakone from all over the world. Many crafters of Yosegi-zaiku resides in Hatajuku community still. Hatajuku has museums and ateliers where we can learn the traditional crafts on hand and find souvenirs. You can decide to spend the rest of your day here and take bus to Hakone Yumoto for returning downtown Megalopolis (; the last bus will be at 20:41. Time table, here).

My Yosegi-zaiku box.
 I have it since I was a kindergartener …
 Maybe somebody gave it to me …

One of such shops to experience Yosegi woodcraft in Hatajuku

The ancient road continues between gardens probably of 200-300 years old …

From Hatajuku Bus Stop, the paved-road goes along with not only Prefectural Road #732, but also National Route 1. The historical road runs also with Sukumo-gawa River 須雲川. The level of slipperiness goes on strong. It continues for about half an hour, and the stone pavement finally unites with Prefectural Road 732 at Sukumo-gawa Bridge. From here to Hakone Yumoto Station, we walk #732, so please be careful of cars. Many hot spring inns start to appear. Area-wise, this is already the tourists’ spot of Hakone Yumoto 箱根湯本. Some spas allow day-trippers to enjoy short time stay. Some requires reservation in advance. To choose one, please refer here. Spa could be a nice conclusion for historical hiking in Hakone. Hakone Yumoto community has its own parks and forests, like I’ve visited for mushroom the other day. In future, I’ll report my another adventure in Hakone Yumoto. 😀

The paved road goes along Sukumo-gawa River.

The toilet near Sukumo-gawa Bridge.
 This is the end of the ancient road.
 From here we, walk #732.

And in no time,
 we enter the present-day housing area of Hakone Yumoto.

Hakone Yumoto Station seen from near Hakone Town Hall.
 The end of our hiking today!

Oh, by the way, for 8 Miles Road of Hakone = Hakone Hachi-ri, “Hachi-ri 八里 = 8-ri” is supposed to be “1-ri * 8 = 3.9 km * 8 = about 32 km,” if we convert the unit in Shogunate official metrics. Our 8 Miles Road is not at all 32km. In classic Japanese language, “ri” often used for “long distance.” The historical road nowadays is about 8 miles that I found very convenient to translate “Hakone Hachi-ri 箱根八里” into English “8 Miles Road.” It seems to me, there are several explanation about the moniker “Hakone Hachi-ri.” The most legal one says the start of the road is Hakone Yumoto, and the end is Mishima 三島 in Shizuoka Prefecture 静岡県, whose distance is about 32km. The ancient route from Hakone Checking Station (箱根関所 roughly, our starting point for this hiking) to Mishima is none other than present day National Route 1, remodeled by modern civil engineering and always busy with lots of cars. Please pick your choice of the beginning / the end of the historical “Hakone Hachi-ri.” Cars? On foot?

Cute Himalayan spindles (Enonymus hamiltonianus) in Hakone.
 This makes white parts of Hakone Yosegi-zaiku …

If you find environmental issues in Hakone, please make a contact with Hakone Visitor Center, Ministry of Environment of Japan.

164 Motohakone, Hakone-machi, Ashigarashimo-gun, Kanagawa 250-0522
Phone: +81-460-84-9981
FAX: +81-460-84-5721
Email: hakone-vc@kanagawa.email.ne.jp
http://hakonevc.sunnyday.jp/shizenjyouhou/gazou/englishindex.html