🇯🇵 Hakone

📍 About Hakone

Mount Fuji reflected in Lake Ashi, hot springs, and the Hakone Open-Air Art Museum.

🗺️ What to do & see in Hakone

• ✅Explore Lake Ashi on a pirate boat with views of Mount Fuji
• ✅Ride the Hakone Ropeway cable car over the Owakudani volcanic valley
• ✅Soak in a traditional hot spring onsen
• ✅Visit the Hakone Open-Air Art Museum with sculptures by Picasso and Henry Moore
• ✅Try the black eggs cooked in Owakudani's sulfur springs
• ✅Stroll along the cedar path of the old Tokaido route

🏛️ Must-see attractions in Hakone

• ⭐Lake Ashi
• ⭐Owakudani
• ⭐Hakone Shrine with its red torii gate over the water
• ⭐Hakone Ropeway
• ⭐Hakone Open-Air Art Museum
• ⭐Hakone Tozan mountain train

🍽️ Local cuisine in Hakone

• 🍴Black eggs kuro-tamago cooked in sulfur hot springs
• 🍴Soba, buckwheat noodles served cold or in broth
• 🍴Fresh regional tofu served in multiple ways
• 🍴Local Japanese sake accompanying kaiseki meals
• 🍴Wagashi, traditional sweets for the tea ceremony

💡 Travel tips for Hakone

• 💡The best time is spring for the cherry blossoms and autumn for the red maple trees
• 💡Mount Fuji can only be seen on a clear sky, wake up early for better views
• 💡Buy the Hakone Free Pass to use all the local transportation
• 💡It's just over an hour by train from Tokyo, ideal for a getaway
• 💡Tattoos are usually not allowed in onsen