Mount Ashigara

Mount Ashigara
Ashigara
Elevation 1,212.5 m (3,978 ft)
Parent peak Mount Hakone
Location
Location Minamiashigara, Kanagawa
Oyama, Shizuoka,  Japan
Coordinates 35°17′23″N 139°00′17″E / 35.28972°N 139.00472°E / 35.28972; 139.00472
Geology
Type stratovolcano

Mount Ashigara (足柄山), also known as Mount Kintoki (金時山), is the northernmost peak of the Hakone caldera, on the border of Kanagawa and Shizuoka prefectures, in the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park in Japan. Ashigara is not a remnant of the collapse of the old Hakone volcano itself, but rather a parasitic cone growing from its flank.

Mount Ashigara is the legendary birthplace of Kintarō. The name means nothing in Japanese. In old songs it is spelled out phonetically as asigari (阿之賀利) or asigara (安思我良). It appears to be Ainu, from *áskar-i 'pure place' [aʃkaɾi], the locative of áskan-ne 'clean, pure'.


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