A Shinto Shrine Hakone-Jinja Shrine is also known under two other names. First – Hakone-Gongen, second – Kuzuryu-Jinja Shrine, or Temple, nine dragon. Both names are associated with a local legend about a monster that sits at the bottom of lake ashinoko-noco, being chained to a sturdy chain. According to legend, Gehenom was the name of the monk who made the offering to the dragon in the form of a barrel with rice. Monk on the boat brought an offering in the center of the lake and threw the barrel into the water, and then had to sail away without a backward glance. The keg was gone in the resulting maelstrom.

The dragon to prison at the bottom of the lake became famous for having devoured the most beautiful local girls. The dragon caught, silenced and chained by a chain to a huge cedar trunk, lying on the bottom of the lake, the Buddhist monk Mangan. Eventually sharpened steel dragon is considered the patron Saint of this place, his tears of remorse turned the waters of lake ashinoko in sacred and unmarried women turn to God-the dragon with prayers for love and marriage.

Red gate-torii erected in the water near the shore of the lake, are among the ritual gates Hakone-Jinja Shrine and is called "dragon Gate" and "Gate of peace". The sanctuary also honored three Shinto deities kami, which are known under the General name Hakone Okami.

Originally, the temple was founded in 757 year on top of the mountain Komagatake, and then was moved to the shore of lake ASHI-Noko. During the battle of Odawara in the late sixteenth century the sanctuary was destroyed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, but was rebuilt in the same century by the order of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Subsequent Tokugawa shoguns continued to patronize the temple.

One of the main attractions of the temple is the alley of Japanese cedars. Its length is more than a kilometer. The age of the oldest tree growing here, is about six centuries, and its diameter exceeds 4 meters. There 1020 trees, but local authorities are planning to extend the alley with young plantations. The air of the alley is considered to be healing.

The temple also has a Museum that holds some treasures Hakone-Jinja Shrine. Near the temple are the hot springs of Hakone Yumoto.