Use JR Pass to travel to either Mishima, Atami or Odawara Station.
Use Hakone Free Pass for views seen from Hakone Tozan railway.
- Hakone Open-Air Museum
Using nature as the backdrop, it showcases sculpture of the 20th century
Has Picasso Pavilion
JPY 1,400 admission if you have Hakone Free Pass
Try the foot onsen
A short walk from Chokoku No Mori Station on the Hakone Tozan Railway (30 minutes, 390 yen from Hakone-Yumoto, covered by the Hakone Free Pass), the last station before the terminal station of Gora.
Hours: 9 to 5 pm (entry till 4:30 pm)
No closing days.
JPY 1600 (JPY 1500 if online discount) coupon used
by Cable Car to Sounzan - leaves Gora every 20 minutes arrive 9 minutes later
Stop: Koen-Kami -> Hakone Museum of Art
bamboo grove w/ lovely moss garden, Japanese cedars
sample Jap tea for JPY 630 - most beautiful in autumn
The museum is located on the slopes of Gora, just above Gora Park.
It is a three minute walk from Koenkami Station of the Hakone Tozan Cablecar between Gora and Sounzan, or a ten minute walk uphill from Gora Station.
by Ropeway to Togendai, so from Sounzan, braad ropeway with gondolas, 30 minutes
over mountain to Togendai on other side.
Ropeway stops 5:15 pm in summer. Before Togendai..get off...at...
- Owukudani Nature Trail (Great Boiling Valley)
Owukudani is the ropeway's highest point
Probably grab a boiled egg cooked from the boiling waters
Hike for 30 minutes or so and breathe the sulfuric fumes :-)
Owakudani is a station along the Hakone Ropeway between Sounzan and Togendai.
Sounzan is accessible from Hakone-Yumoto by Hakone Tozan Railway and cablecar with a transfer at Gora Station.
Togendai is on the shores of Lake Ashi and is connected by boat with Moto-Hakone and Hakone-machi.
- Cross Lake Ashi from Togendai
Two companies, Hakone Sightseeing Boats and Izuhakone Sightseeing Boats, operate boats between Moto-Hakone and Hakone-machi at the lake's southern shores and Togendai and Kojiri at the northern shores.
A boat cruise from one end of the lake to the other takes roughly 30 minutes and costs 970 yen. The Hakone Free Pass is valid on the pirate ship shaped Hakone Sightseeing Boats but not on boats operated by Izuhakone.
Will not pay for entering the museum anymore because I will skip it.
- Narukawa Art Museum
Has views of Lake Ashi and Mt. Fuji from here
Modern works of the Nihonga style of painting, from Heian period style
- Fujiya Hotel ??
Hakone's oldest and grandest hotel
Great views
Curry lunch? (it might be affordable) as most of the time I hear meals here are expensive
Tour of the landscaped garden
Will check as I think I read they have a tour of the hotel
- Hakone Shrine??
HOT SPRINGS! ONSEN!
Hopefully lodgings will have this..otherwise try Tenzan or Kappa Tengoku?
Tenzan -
A short walk from Oku-Yumoto Iriguchi bus stop (bus line K)
Hours: daily 9:00 to 23:00 (admission until 22:00)
Closed: No closing days
Admission: 1200 yen
Collection of nicely done hot spring pools, most of which are outdoors at the foot of a wooded slope. The bath house is a beautiful traditional Japanese style building.
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For those who've been to Hakone and can recommend something, please feel free to comment :-)
A short walking trail leads from the ropeway station into the volcanic zone to a number of steam vents and bubbling pools.
ReplyDeleteHere you can purchase eggs, cooked in the naturally hot water, whose shells are blackened by the sulfur and which are said to prolong one's life by seven years.
sama koh!
ReplyDeletecool, sama ka na...I've been asking around kung sinong brave and energetic enough to accompany me on this trip...I've proven your worth sa Ukraine trip natin :-)
ReplyDeleteNov 2 ang trip ko...lets go if kaya mo town hopping almost every day ....serious!
I don't fancy eating black eggshells lol.
ReplyDeleteLOL....its crunchy!
ReplyDelete*wink*
I've been here. It is quite nice, but that was in the pre-digital photography days, so no pictures to share.
ReplyDeletehmm...you still have your negatives?
ReplyDelete..but you can have your film scanned - negatives to cd we call it here....and then it will be preserved..
how about the other sites mentioned above? is it worth doing or shall I just boil myself in the hot springs for most of the time? *grin*
Haven't been to the other places.
ReplyDeletelots of hiking can be done so they say....
ReplyDeletejust had a thought..
ReplyDeleteyou know, if women were told it would make them beautiful and younger-looking, it would be a best-seller..and we'd see women eating black eggshells...LOL
hahaha..vanity..thy middle name is...well..never mind...coz am of the category too *grin*