富士山麓における別荘地の開発と利用形態（短報）

富士山麓における別荘地の開発と利用形態
佐藤大祐* 澁谷和樹**
Development and Usage Patterns of Second-home Areas at the Foot of Mt. Fuji
Daisuke SATO and Kazuki SHIBUYA
[Received 23 January, 2015; Accepted 19 April, 2015]
Abstract
The development process and usage patterns of second-home areas at the foot of Mt. Fuji are
clarified by analyzing their expansion process, capital, and owner behavior. After World War I, in
1929, Fuji Kyuko Company, profiting from a business boom, started to develop a second-home area
south of Lake Yamanaka [Yamanaka Kohan Bessochi]. This approach, by which a private company borrowed a section of Imperial Gift Land from Yamanashi Prefecture and established a
second-home area, served as a model for developments at the northern foot of Mt. Fuji. In the
early 1960s, second-home areas were developed north of Lake Yamanaka and at Fujizakura
Highland south of Lake Kawaguchi. With the opening of the Chuo and Tomei Expressways in 1969,
there were large capital flows into the creation of up-scale second-home areas at Juriki Highland,
Fujigamine Highland, and Asagiri Highland, as well as around Lake Kawaguchi from the late
1960s until the mid-1970s. Large railway, trading, and paper manufacturing companies, as well
as local developers, started to create second-home areas throughout the high-growth period. These
investors, therefore, competed for land at the foot of Mt. Fuji. As a result, speculative capital
flowed into development projects in second-home areas. This speculation created the potential for
massive environmental destruction. Consequently, local governments concluded agreements with
second-home owners' associations to clarify management responsibilities. Owners are most frequently at their second homes on weekends and during summer vacations in the hot months from
mid-July to mid-September when temperatures at the foot of Mt. Fuji are below 30℃. Owners also
visit frequently at weekends and holidays in the spring and autumn. The second-home areas
around Mt. Fuji, therefore, are both summer and weekend resorts, because they are located within
a two-hour commute from Tokyo by car. The second-home areas, moreover, receive many migrants
from urban areas, including aged persons, who seek an attractive natural environment at a relatively low price.
Key words： second-home areas, land development, development capital, usage patterns of
second homes, foot of Mt. Fuji
キーワード：別荘地，土地開発，開発資本，利用形態，富士山麓
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*立教大学観光学部
*立教大学大学院観光学研究科
*College of Tourism, Rikkyo University, Niiza, 352-8558, Japan
**Graduate school of Tourism, Rikkyo University, Niiza, 352-8558, Japan
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