Breakfast at McDonald’s! Haha
I had planned to visit Fuji Mountain today. But because my colleague, who had just went to Japan about half a year before me for his honeymoon, told me that I must visit Hakone if I like quiet and serene places, and that Hakone was just south-east of Fuji mountain. Thus, I went there instead.
Using my JR pass, I had access to some of the shinkansen lines and I took one down to Odawara, which if I remember correctly, is a 50 minute journey from Tokyo.
From there, I took another train up north to Gora. Here, I bought a ticket that brings me around some of the places in Hakone.
I didn’t expect a lot of tourists to visit Hakone. How wrong I was. :(
First part of the journey is taking a cable car. It was a long wait. Then the ropeway, which is just another cable car ride through the hills. I enjoyed this part the most because I got to sit down. My feet was still aching from previous days.
大文字(Daimonji)
As my cable car passed through this area, there was a brief weird smell which I assume, is the smell of sulfur.
Fuji Mountain!
The cable car ride ends at Togendai. Here, I bought a hot chocolate drink and some “mochi” for my friends and myself. There were good. Very good. (*´д｀*)
The final part of the sightseeing in Hakone involves taking this fancy ferry across Lake Ashi.
Pirate ship!
When the ride ended Hakone-machi, it was almost time for sunset again. While waiting, I had some nice hot takopachi.
Fuji Mountain… again!
After that, I took a bus ride down back to Gora while having a short nap. From there, the way back is the same as the way I came here.
Back in Asakusa, I went to this small conveyor-belt sushi restaurant for dinner. Had like 10 plates of sushi. I remember the bill was around 1500yen.