The landscape structure in the Hakone Area of Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park.(1)

Abstract

In our opinion, we have many problems to be solved concerning the urbanization of natural parks in Japan.
In this paper, as a basic study of the above problems, we have surveyed the landscape in the Hakone area of Fuji-Hakone-Izu national park by taking the airial photographs.
The outline of the type and the structure of landscape is shown in Tables 1 and 2.
The results of landscape analysis from the point of view of topography and ownership of land are shown in Tables 3 through 7 and Figs 2 through 5.
From these data, the following characters were known.
1. The occupied area by the cultural landscape such as residental area, golf links, and others is about 16% of the total land area and the remainig area of about 84% of the total is covered by the natural landscape consising of forests, grass lands etc. in the Hakone area.
2. A greater part of the cultural landscape is distributed on the slope of less than 10 degrees in the Hakone area and, moreover, belongs to private owners.
3. A half of the land on the slope of less than 10 degrees has been developed and the remaining reserved part is unsuited for development by reason of being the precincts of shrine denuded land, protection forests, dump gorunds, etc.
4. For the reasons stated above, it is concluded that the horizontal development of the Hakone area is reaching the maximum and its future development will have an important influence on the landscape as a natural park.