Shinto Shrine Hakone-Jinja Shrine is also known under two other names. First - Hakone Gongen second - Kudzuryu-Shrine or Temple of nine-dragon. Both names are connected with a local legend about a monster, which sits on the bottom of Lake Ashi, Noko, chained strong chain. According to legend, Gongen called a monk who made an offering to the dragon in the form of a barrel of rice. Monk offerings delivered by boat to the center of the lake and throwing a keg into the water, and then had to float away without looking back. Barrel meanwhile disappeared in the resulting maelstrom.

Dragon himself to captivity at the bottom of the lake famous for having devoured most beautiful local girls. Dragon caught pacified and chained to a huge cedar trunk, lying on the bottom of the lake, a Buddhist monk Mangan. Over time, the imprisoned dragon was seen as the patron saint of these places, his tears of remorse turned the waters of Lake Ashi in sacred and unmarried women are turning to God, the dragon with the prayers of love and marriage.

Red torii gate, erected in the water near the shore of the lake, is one of the ritual gate of Hakone-Jinja and are called "Dragon Gate" and "Gate of Peace". The sanctuary also honored three deities of Shinto kami, which are known collectively as the Hakone Okami.

Initially, the church was founded in the year 757 at the top of the mountain Hokkaido Koma-ga-take, and then was moved to the shore of Lake Ashi, Noko. During the Battle of Odawara at the end of the XVI century the sanctuary was burned by the troops of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, but was rebuilt in the same century by order of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Follow the Tokugawa shoguns continued to patronize the temple.

One of the main attractions is the church Alley of Japanese cedars. Its length is more than a kilometer. The age of the old tree growing here, is about six centuries, and its diameter is greater than 4 meters. In total there are 1020 trees, but local authorities are planning to extend the mall by a young plantations. The air mall is considered healing.

The temple also has a museum that holds some treasures of Hakone-Jinja. Next to the temple is the hot springs - Hakone Yumoto.