Sagami Lake – Kanagawa Prefecture

The three square kilometer Lake Sagami in Sagamihara City in Kanagawa Prefecture has a comparatively short history, having only existed since 1947 when the Sagami River was damned. Its biggest claim to fame is that it was the venue for the canoeing events in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. The Japanese economy was desperate for electricity after the war and to compensate the local fishing families whose income was ruined by the creation of the lake they were given economic rights to boating on the lake which is now inhabited by black bass who are notoriously difficult to catch in this lake.

I stumbled around up a large hill to the south east of the lake to take these pictures after sunset, at the Lake Sagami Pleasure Forest resort area. The lake is accessible by the Sagamiko station on the Chuo main line.