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Hakone Day tour to view Mt Fuji after feeling wooden culture
Features
- Free cancellation available
- 8h
- Mobile voucher
- Instant confirmation
- Multiple languages
Overview
- Learn Japanese traditional wooden culture at marquetry workshop, old folk house.
- Enjoy the memorable photo shooting at Hakone Shrine aside Lake Ashi.
- View Mt Fuji from Lake Ashi-altitude 700m and at Owakudani valley-1000m.
Activity location
- Tokyo
- Tokyo, 東京都, Japan
Meeting/Redemption Point
- Yumoto, Hakone, Ashigarashimo District, Kanagawa 250-0311, Japan | There is only one ticket gate at Hakone Yumoto station, so your guide will be waiting for you at the ticket gate.
- Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan
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Guided tour in English or Chinese
- 8h
- English
What's included, what's not
- 1)Guiding fee
- 2)Guide's transport fee only from his home to meeting point
- 1)Transport ticket fee during this tour for guest and your guide (from Hakone Yumoto station to Hakone Yumoto, adult: JY5,000, child(6-11years): JY1,000
- 2)Lunch fee (around JY1500) for guest and your guide:
- 3)Drink fee at Tea House (JY500) for guest and your guide:
- 4)Swan pedal boat fee (JY1500 for max 3 guests)
- 5)In case you select option event (Hakone Open-Air Museum),
- The entrance fee for guest and guide: JY2000 per person.
- Overtime guiding fee: JY2,200 per one hour
Know before you book
- Not suitable for: People with respiratory issues
What you can expect
This is a Private Tour (one group only), Enjoy All “Must-Sees” in Your First/Second Visiting Hakone!
8:00am) Meet at “Hakone-Yumoto” or “Odawara” station (Odakyu Railway), please note the meeting time may be changeable upon your staying place. In order for your guide (Munetaka) to fix our meeting time and place, Munetaka sends you some questions within a few days after your booking for your more comfortable trip. You are recommended to stay at Hakone/Odawara area one day before our tour date because it takes around two hours from Tokyo.
0) Buy your Hakone Free Pass (it is a economical discount excursion ticket for guest and Munetaka, fee is JY5000/adult, JY1000/ages 6-11, two days validity)
1) Visit “Yosegi-zaiku(wooden handicraft marquetry)” workshop running more than 200 years –secret box etc.–, you can listen to the 7th generation master's explanation of the production process directly and enjoy shopping. (reservation done by Munetaka, staying 25min)
2) Visit an old tea house with a thatched roof of 400 years in deep cedar forest on side of Old Tokaido highway (500km to Kyoto), enjoy “Amazake” (non-alcohol & mold-fermented rice-drink, non-sugar, JY500 per person, by cash) and take rest at the fired hearth like people did in old days, talking to 13th generation master (staying 25min).
3) Visit “Hakone Shrine” to pray for our peace, where is located aside “Lake Ashi” by getting on swan-pedal-boat on Lake (JY1500/30min/max 3 persons) or walking on foot. Let's take photos at a big eye-catching red Torii Gate as background.
4) Get on cursing ship on Lake Ashi (40min.), to view Mt Fuji and enjoy the beautiful scenery in case of good weather!
5) Ride on ropeway (30min) to climb up to an active volcanic Valley “Owakudani” at altitude 1044m to view Mt Fuji and smell sulfured gases directly from the earth. Try the famous black eggs (JY500/4 pcs) to extend your life by seven years per one piece.
6) At Owakudani, let's have a little bit earlier lunch (delicious curry rice). Please let me know if you have any dietary allergies or restrictions in advance.
7) Get on ropeway + cable-car (15min+10 min) then back to Hakone-Yumoto sta. by getting on Hakone Mountain Train(40min) which adopts switch-back method for mountain's steep:80 per mil, it is the second steepest angle in the world, next to Switzerland Mountain Train.
8) Back to Hakone Yumoto station around 16:00 (end of tour)
This tour is to utilise five kinds of transport with Odakyu-Hakone Free Pass to go around all Hakone.
The staying time at each spot/the order of visiting spots will be changeable due to the situation of the transport, weather conditions etc.
PS: If you want to stop over at (a)“Hakone Open-Air Museum” where has 320 artworks of Picasso, 120 works of Moore, Rodin etc. (entrance fee: JY2000 per person + overtime guiding fee one hour: JY2200) or (b) “Okada Museum of Art”, please let me know at your booking time, Munetaka will recreate the detailed time schedule separately.
Location
Activity location
- Tokyo
- Tokyo, 東京都, Japan
Meeting/Redemption Point
- Yumoto, Hakone, Ashigarashimo District, Kanagawa 250-0311, Japan | There is only one ticket gate at Hakone Yumoto station, so your guide will be waiting for you at the ticket gate.
- Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan