Hakone One Day

• Model 1 (must see plan – 11 hrs)
  • Meet at your hotel or major train station)
  • Train from Tokyo to Hakone-Yumoto (1.5 hrs)
  • Hakone Tozan train (bus) to Gora (or Open Air Museum)
  • Explore Open Air Museum
  • Hakone Tozan Cable Car and Hakone Ropeway to Owakudani Valley
  • Explore Owakudani Valley
  • Lunch
  • Hakone Ropeway to Togendai Stn
  • Cruse Lake Ashinoko to Motohakone port
  • Visit Hakone shrine
  • Bus back to Hakone-Yumoto
  • Train back to Tokyo

• Model 2 (Plus hot spring – 11 hrs)
  • Meet at your hotel or major train station)
  • Train from Tokyo to Hakone-Yumoto (1.5 hrs)
  • Bus to Motohakone
  • Explore Narukawa museum
  • Cruse Lake Ashinoko to Togendai port
  • Hakone Ropeway to Okakudani Valley
  • Explore Owakudani Valley
  • Lunch
  • Hakone Ropeway and Hakone Tozan Cable Car to Gora
  • Visit Gora park
  • Hakone Tozan train (bus) to Tonosawa
  • Onsen hot spring bath
  • Train back to Tokyo from Hakone-Yumoto

• Tour fee
  • 1 or 2 persons : 35,000 JPY
  • Group upto 5 persons : 45,000 JPY
  • For more than 5 persons, please contact me

• Included
  • Guide fee
  • Public transportation fares for guide

• Not included
  • Transportation fares for guests
    • Special sightseeing pass – 5,700 JPY per person using Odakyu line from Shinjuku (including train round trip, cable car, ropeway, cruise boat, bus). In case of using Romance car (special express), additional 2,200 JPY will be required (round trip).
    • In case of JR pass, the pass costs 4,600 JPY from Odawara stn including everything.
    • In Hakone sightseeing, visitors have to use many kinds of transportations such as tram, cable car, ropeway, boat etc. – actually riding these transports are the part of sightseeing. The special sightseeing pass that is mentioned above offers lower price including everything, and many discounts for admission fees for attractions and museums.
  • Admission fees for guests and guide
    • Open Air Museum : 1600 JPY, Narukawa Museum : 1300 JPY, Gora park : 550 JPY, Onsen hot spring : 1500 JPY
  • Lunch and Tea ceremony for guests and guide

Cruse at Lake Ashinoko
Most popular attraction at Hakone is the cruse by a pirate boat. It takes 25minutes from Hakonemachi / location of Motohakone pier, Sekisyo and Hakoneshrine, to Togendai pier, the starting point of Hakone Ropeway. During the cruise, you can enjoy the view of Mt. Fuji and the red colored Torii gate of Hakone shire.

Panoramic View from Ropeway
Hakone Ropeway connected Togendai Stn to Sounzan stn in Gore area via Owakudani valley. The views of Lake Ashinoko and Mt. Fuji are very beautiful.

Owakudani valley
Spectacular view and sulfurous fumes gushing out from volcanic activity. You can feel the power of earth here. A black egg, boiled and colored by sulfurous muddy water, is one of the special food in Owakudani valley.

Hakone shrine
Built in 8th century and located at Motohakone town. It is worshiped as the guardian god for the travelers at Hakone mountain road.  The red colored Torii that is located in the Lake, is very famous.

Sekisho (historical check point)
During Edo period, Tokugawa shogunate places 53 check security check points in order to prevent weapons from being brought into Edo and wives and children of feudal loads from fleeing from Edo. Hakone sekisyo is one of largest and most important check point built in 1619 in this location.

Tokaido-suginamiki path
During Edo period, 5 main roadway were developed and maintained. Tokaido roadway that was connected Edo (former Tokyo) and Kyoto was the most important roadway at that time. In Hakone, you can visit and trek the old Tokaido roadway. Some part of the path are stone paved, and some are with cedar trees along the pass.