Mount Kanmuri ( = ''Kanmuri-ga-Take'', meaning the "mountain with a Kanmuri

hat A hat is a Headgear, head covering which is worn for various reasons, including protection against weather conditions, ceremonial reasons such as university graduation, religious reasons, safety, or as a fashion accessory. Hats which incorpor ...

") is one of the peaks of

Mount Hakone , with its highest peak Mount Kami (Hakone), Mount Kami (1,438 meters), is a complex volcano in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan that is truncated by two overlapping calderas, the largest of which is 10 × 11 km wide. The calderas were fo ...

, in

Hakone is a List of towns in Japan, town in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. , the town had a population of 10,965, and total area of . Hakone is a notable spa town and a popular tourist destination due to its many onsen, hot springs being within view of ...

Kanagawa, Japan is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the List of Japanese prefectures by population, second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-dens ...

, with an elevation of 1,409m meters. When the

phreatic eruptions A phreatic eruption, also called a phreatic explosion, ultravulcanian eruption or steam-blast eruption, occurs when magma heats ground water or surface water. The extreme temperature of the magma (anywhere from ) causes near-instantaneous evap ...

occurred on the northwestern slope of Mount Kami about 2,900 years ago, the underground

magma Magma () is the molten or semi-molten natural material from which all igneous rocks are formed. Magma (sometimes colloquially but incorrectly referred to as ''lava'') is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and evidence of magmatism has also ...

created a

lava dome In volcanology, a lava dome is a circular, mound-shaped protrusion resulting from the slow extrusion of viscous lava from a volcano. Dome-building eruptions are common, particularly in convergent plate boundary settings. Around 6% of eruptions ...

, which is the current Mount Kanmuri. These eruptions caused the damming of the Haya River, creating the

Sengokuhara , sometimes called Sengokubara, is a district in Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan. Geography The district covers a total area of approximately 22 km2,

and

Lake Ashi , also referred to as Hakone Lake or Ashinoko Lake, is a scenic lake in the Hakone area of Kanagawa Prefecture in Honshū, Japan. It is a crater lake that lies along the southwest wall of the caldera of Mount Hakone, a complex volcano that last ...

. This mountain looks like the " Kanmuri" headwear, which used to be worn by the noble men in ancient Japan.

Climbing Mount Kanmuri

Climbing mountains is a popular sport in the

area. To the top of Mount Kanmuri, there are three trails: from Mount Koma Summit Station of the

Hakone Komagatake Ropeway The , officially the , is a Japanese aerial lift line in Hakone, Kanagawa, Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, Kanagawa, operated by Izu Hakone Railway. The line, opened in 1963, climbs Mount Koma (Hakone), Mount Koma (:ja:箱根山, 駒ヶ岳) from t ...

, from Sōunzan Station of

Hakone Tozan Cable Car The , officially the , is a funicular railway in the town of Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan. It is operated by Odakyu Hakone, a Odakyu Group company who also operates the Hakone Tozan Train. The funicular links Gōra, the upper terminus of the railwa ...

, and from

Ōwakudani Station is a station on the Hakone Ropeway in the town of Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan. It is from the Hakone Ropeway's terminus at Sōunzan Station, from the Hakone Ropeway's opposing terminus at Tōgendai Station. It is located at an altitude of in the ...

of the

Hakone Ropeway The is the name of an aerial lift, as well as its operator. The funitel line links between Sōunzan and Tōgendai via Ōwakudani, all within Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan. The line became funitel in 2002, the second of its kind in the nation, af ...

.Hike from Sounzan to Mount Kami & Mount Komagatake in Hakone (2014)
/ref> The trail from

Ōwakudani is a volcanic valley with active sulphur vents and hot spring A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a Spring (hydrology), spring produced by the emergence of Geothermal activity, geothermally heated groundwater onto th ...

gets closed when too much volcanic

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is evident. .

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Climbing Mount Kanmuri

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