Kojiri Enchi Park

Kojiri Enchi Park in Hakone covers 117 hectares and includes a 3-kilometer circuit trail starting near the Hakone Visitor Center. The park is home to more than 2,000 plant and animal species, including Japanese bigleaf magnolia with leaves up to 40 centimeters wide and the small-fruited Fuji cherry. In 1949, Emperor Showa and Empress Kojun personally planted seven trees here during a postwar visit, and those trees still stand in one corner of the park. The Kodomo no Hiroba section preserves traces of the original silvergrass meadow that covered the area before postwar timber planting.