Japanese Breakfast at Setsugetsuka Hotel > Gora Village > Ropeway > Sounzan > Cable Car > Owakudani > Mt Fuji > Lake Ashi > Pirate Ship > Lake Ashi Hakone Shrine Torii > Hakone machi > Checkpoint Museum > Yumoto Village > Romance Car > Yumoto Station > Shinjuku Station
Before breakfast, a dip into one of the three private outdoor onsens. This photo shows the hooks to hang your clothes.
A small dressing table and chairs for your basket of clothes and towels.
Outdoors yet with enough privacy. The water was nice and warm. A pleasant soak before breakfast.
A female local guest dressed in the hotel's brightly coloured yukata makes her way to the main onsen.
Free bottles of chilled Yakult were available outside the main onsen.
Setgusetsuka hotel building.
Our Japanese breakfast. What a spread! After breakfast, we headed to the hotel's cafe for a drink of free coffee. Then with the hotel's help, we used the luggage service to send our heavy bags ahead to Yumoto station, while we checked out of the hotel, and continued to explore Hakone, as our train to Shinjuku was only due to depart at 5:30pm.
After we checked out of the hotel, we took a leisure stroll through Gora village.
It always amazes me on the variety of the products in the vending machines in Japan. And their cleanliness! Never encountered a fault or dirty vending machine.
Decided to take the cable car to Souzan...
Then from Souzan, boarded the ropeway to Owakudani..
Once at Owakudani, we stepped out of the station, walked over the the nearest building to admire My Fuji, again.
Saw Hello Kitty and her black egg companion at Owakudani.
Didn't eat these black eggs but were on sale for ¥500 for 5 eggs. The eggs become black after soaking in the sulphur hot spring from this area.
Owakudani stand at 1044m above sea level.
Captured Mt Fuji on the ropeway journey down to Lake Ashi to board the pirate boat.
Some members of the crew were dressed in theme to the delight of children young and old.
The bridge.
At Hakonemachi we walked 10 minutes to the Checkpoint Museum.
This Checkpoint Museum was rebuilt to exact replica of the Edo period checkpoint and used as a gateway for visitors in and out of this area.
To catch our train at Yumoto station, we used our Hakone freepass to catch a bus from Hakonemachi to Yumoto - a mere 30 minute bus ride, if you catch the express bus. Yumoto village has several restaurants, cafes and stalls selling food.
This guy was doing a roaring business selling heart shaped biscuits. ¥250.
Our trip back to Shinjuku was via the EXE model of the Romance car.
Watched the seats automatically swivel to face the forward direction.
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