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A facility where you can play in the air using huge nets strung up in the forest, located within the "Ashigara Forest Park Log Forest" in the rich nature of southern Ashigara. The Pakavu was opened on the island of Groix, in the French region of Brittany, where it can be enjoyed in the air by exploiting a huge net braided by the island's fishermen. Here, it is possible to cross a net-built suspension bridge with Yura Yura, go through an aerial maze that combines various nets, and also install a net-built tunnel slide with a sense of thrill. With family and peers, also sports such as aerial mini-football and aerial badminton and dotch ball. Use is 120 minutes once. Make a reservation if you can.

The 1.07 million-square-meter nature park has a forest hall where you can learn about forests and forestry, and the wood craft center has experience of making pencils, booklets, wooden toys, etc. Price: around 300 yen, Time: 9-11:50, 13:00 to 16:20). Walking course is recommended for forest bathing. The park is located north of Mt. Hakone Sotoyamayama, and has a good view.

There is a stone monument carved with songs related to Ashigara that appear in the Man'yōshū, and a flower tree that appears in the song is planted. You can overlook Hakone, Ashigara Plain, Sagami Bay, etc. When you walk to Ashigara Castle, you can enjoy a view of the majestic Mount Fuji.

The park, which is about five times the size of Tokyo Dome, is dotted with campgrounds, barbecue grounds, wooden playground equipment, walking paths with a 3km outer perimeter, an old private house, an old elementary school school building, and a botanical garden. You can easily enjoy outdoor activities such as summer camping, river play, barbecue throughout the year, nature observation, and mini-trekking. You can also touch the history of the area with an old private house or an old elementary school school building, or get acquainted with all the trees in the botanical garden and the mountain grass of the four seasons. There are also many experience events, and it is a park where everyone can feel the forest close to them. There is also a "forest-no-air play pakab" in the park where you can enjoy bouncing and swaying on various forms of nets spread in the forest (separate fees).

An ancient temple of the Soto sect, which stands on the middle of Mount Myojingatake on Mount Hakone Sotowa. In the first year of Oei (1394), Ryoan Keimei (Ryoan-en-e-myo) was opened by Zen Master. It boasts a formality second only to Eiheiji Temple in Fukui and Tōjiji Temple in Tsurumi. Around 30 temple towers stand around the main hall, and there are a huge iron clogs weighing 3.8 tons, as well as various large and small iron clogs, as well as Tengu's fan. Cedars of 400 to 500 years old line the approach to the road, and there is a solemn atmosphere. It is said that Dōryō-sama, a disciple of Rōan Keimei Zen-shi, was instrumental in the architecture of the temple, but after Rōan Keimei-Zen-shi died, he became a tengu and flew away. This is the Tengu Legend, which has since been enshrined as the temple's guardian deity.

At the border between Suruga and Sagami, the place where the official road, Ashigara-do, which used to connect the upper and eastern countries, passed. A view is open in the vicinity, and from the site of Ashigara Castle at the top, it can be seen to the south to Hakone, to the east to the Ashigara Plain and Sagami Bay, and to the west to the foot of Mount Fuji.

A waterfall with a height of 23m over the upstream inner river, a tributary of the Sakawa River, deep in the satoyama, which is a continuous mountain. It is reported that Kintaro was used by Isuyu. A campsite is opened in the summer. You can enjoy river play and barbecue. On the first Sunday of July, a waterfall of the sunset is held for mountain climbing and camping safety prayers.

Umebayashi, which extends about 7km northeast of Odawara. The plum festival will be held in February, with 35,000 plums set to bloom against the backdrop of Hakone Renzan and Mount Fuji. There are many attractions around the area, and there are also walking paths connecting these spots, such as Zuiyun-ji, which has the benefits of the child treasure and the amukami, the Soga-ji temple of the Soga brothers, and Jozen-ji temple in the former Rokuga village.

This is one of the largest resort hotels in Japan, located in a great location overlooking Sagami Bay against the backdrop of Hakone mountains. Leisure facilities include a burde zone (various pools, saunas, and 25m swimming pools), natural hot springs, spa, rock bathing, sports facilities, and restaurants. I want to spend a relaxing moment watching the sea.

Hot spring facilities open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Every day, the hot springs are carried by tanker trucks from the source of Yugawara, and they are praised by a variety of bath boats, including rooftop open-air baths and bright large baths. At the restaurant, there is a menu of authentic Japanese food that uses plenty of seasonal ingredients, as well as a nice menu. There are many spaces where you can relax in the hall, and there are plenty of body care menus.