Articles of category "Volcanoes"

Hakone is a name for both a mountainous area and a volcano, lying west of Tokyo in Japan. Hakone features a substantial tourist activity, since it is an excellent recreational area with many mountains to climb and several parks to take a stroll. Hakone hosts many onsen (hot spring) resort areas and both locals and foreigners come to Hakone for a treatment at health resorts.

Japan is located along the circum-Pacific volcanic belt; therefore, there is a great number of volcanic areas. It is interesting to note that of the eight hundred and forty active volcanoes in the world, Japan has almost 1/10 of them (approximately eighty), although Japan has only 1/400 of the world's land area. An abundance of volcanoes has both negative and positive aspects: volcanoes are dangerous and devastating for the civilization and, at the same time, they make money, since crowds of tourists go to see them all year round.