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Staff member of lower house explains Diet building

Masaki Kameya, a staff member of the House of Representatives, gives information on the Diet building in Tokyo to visitors on April 23, 2015. Tours of the national Diet building have been gaining popularity among tourists and school trip participants. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kiga Spa

This photo was taken before the spa town of Kiga was lost in a big fire in 1892 and before the new road between Miyanoshita and Miyagino opened in 1889. Jindairo of Kameya Inn and the entrance facing the new road can be seen. Yakushido is visible behind Kameya Inn. The buildings before them are Matsuzakaya Inn and Sengokuya Inn. The building half covered by the trees on the left is Chokairo of Matsuzakaya. Hayakawa Valley is in the right foreground.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number93‐38‐0]

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Kiga Spa

Since the new road opened in 1889 between Miyanoshita and Miyagino can not be seen, this is the spa town of Kiga prior to that time. Yakusuhido is where the torii gate is. Before that are the buildings of Kameya Inn, and Jindairo is on the right. Matsuzakaya Inn is across from it on the other side of Susawa River. The building with a white wall on the left is Chokairo of Matsuzakaya Inn. Finally the one in the foreground is Sengokuya Inn. Hayakawa is visible on the right and one of the outer mountain ranges of Hakone, Myojingadake, is visible.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number82‐24‐0]

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Kiga Spa

This photo captures the area around Kameya of Kiga Spa. The three-storied Jindairo of Kameya Inn is visible in the centre. Since the entrance of Kameya facing the new road between Miyanoshita and Miyagino can be seen, this photo was taken between 1889 and 1892 when the spa town of Kiga was lost in a fire. Hayakawa River flows on the right and one of the outer mountain ranges of Hakone, Myojingadake, is visible.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number81‐20‐0]

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Kiga Spa

This is the spa town of Kiga before the new road to Miyagino opened in 1889. The torii gate a little far back is Yakushido ( a Buddhist temple hall housing a statue of the Buddha of healing,) and the building on the left is Yuyoin. The buildings before them belong to Kameya Inn. The house on the right is Jindairo. Matsuzakaya Inn is across from it on the other side of Susawa River. The building with a white wall on the left is Chokairo of Matsuzakaya Inn. Finally the one in the foreground is Sengokuya. Hayakawa Rver is visible on the right and continues to Kiga Valley.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number64‐23‐0]

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Kiga Spa

A photo of Kiga Spa in its heyday. Kiga Spa was the favourite resort of Dr.Baelz and General Le Bon, and prospered as one of the most prominent spas in the seven spas of Hakone before it was destroyed in the great fire of 1882. Kameya Inn,which can be seen in the right corner, was the most prominent.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number29‐3‐0]

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Kiga Spa

A photo of the Kiga Spa from the direction of the present KKR Hakone Summer house. Haya River runs in the centre, and Suzawa River flows in from the left, and over the river are seen Kameya, Yakushido and Sengokuya to the fore etc. Kiga was a prosperous spa during the Meiji era. The mountain to the rear is Myojingadake.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:F. Beato, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number28‐2‐0]

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Kiga Spa

An overall view of the Kiga Spa. The river to the right is the Haya River. The mountain to the rear is Myojingadake and Usui Pass. Kiga Spa was divided by the Su River into the Miyagino side with Kameya and Yuyouin and the Miyanoshita side with the Sengokuya and Shobuyu inns. The photo is similar to the Edaori of the Seven Spas (1811) .==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number26‐40‐0]

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Ashinoyu hot spring

An overall view of the Ashinoyu Spa. The centre is the inn Matsuzakaya. To its right is Yoshidaya. To the left rear is Kinokuniya, and to the front of Kinokuniya is Iseya, to the left is Kameya, and the farthest left is probably Daikokuya. Compared to the photo numbered 5-18, there are fewer houses, so it must be a photo taken before that.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number26‐30‐0]

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Kiga waterfall

The Kameya Ryokan was the largest Japanese-style hotel among the hotels in Kiga Spa, and its well-tended garden was also famous. In the photo, fountains can also be seen. It was destroyed in the great fire in 1892, and was not restored. The French General Le Bon who visited the site 40 years later regretted the destruction, and his words remain inscribed on a monument at the site today.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number6‐8‐0]

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Ashinoyu hot spring

An overall view of the Ashinoyu Hot Springs. In the centre is the inn Matsuzakaya, and to its right is Yoshidaya. In the left rear of Matsuzakaya is Kinokuniya. In front of Daikokuya is Kameya, and to the right is Iseya. The resort is located at the highest point of the Tokaido in Hakone.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number5‐18‐0]