Hakone is home to tourist attractions such as Lake Ashi, Owakudani, Hakone Shrine, Hakone Kowakuen Unessan, and the Hakone Open-Air Museum, tourist events such as the Hakone Daimyo Gyoretsu, Hakone Ekiden, Hakone Daimonjiyaki, and Sengokuhara Susuki Festival, which is an essential New Year's event, and local gourmet foods such as onsen manju, black eggs, and yuba donburi. The famous yosegi-zaiku (marquetry work) is an ideal souvenir.
The Hakone area, located in the southwestern part of Kanagawa Prefecture, is one of Japan's most well-known tourist destinations. Despite its easy accessibility (only 1.5 to 2 hours from central Tokyo), the area offers beautiful seasonal scenery and many unique sights unique to hot spring resorts, creating an extraordinary trip.
The Hakone-Yumoto area, the gateway to Hakone, is crowded with tourists regardless of the season. There are many accommodations and day-trip hot springs, and finding the hot spring of your choice is one of the pleasures of the area.
One stop on the Hakone Tozan Railway line brings you to Tonosawa, where you will find Tonosawa Onsen, which was opened in the Edo period and is known as a hot spring for beautiful skin. A short distance away, Hatajuku is known as the birthplace of traditional marquetry, and visitors can try their hand at marquetry.
Further up the mountain on the Hakone Tozan Railway is the Miyanoshita area, which has developed around the Fujiya Hotel since the Meiji era (1868-1912) and offers a retro atmosphere.
Further up the mountain is the Kowakudani area, which is crowded with many tourists. Recommended spots include Yunessan, a day spa facility, and Horaien Garden, famous for its autumn leaves and azaleas.
Beyond that, there is Gora, where you can transfer to the Hakone Tozan Cable Car. The area is famous for the Hakone Open-Air Museum and Gora Park.
Other places to visit include Sengokuhara, a highland resort area with many museums, and a place to visit at least once during the silver grass season in autumn. A short distance away is Gotemba Premium Outlets. The Hakone area is full of attractive sightseeing spots that are sure to please no matter how many times you visit. We hope you will visit.
Hakone Shrine was founded in 757, the first year of the Tenpyo-Hoji Era, by a priest named Manmaki Shonin, and was called Hakone Sansho-Gongen in ancient times. In the Kamakura period (1185-1333), the temple was respected by Minamoto no Yoritomo and other important figures of the Kamakura shogunate, and its fame grew. Today, there are many outstanding treasures of the shrine, including a wooden se...»
The Hakone Ropeway is convenient for sightseeing in Owakudani. The Hakone Ropeway connects Sounzan Station, which is a relay point for the Hakone Tozan Cable Car, Owakudani Station, one of Hakone's representative tourist spots, Ubako Station, where Ubako Onsen, one of the 17 hot springs in Hakone, is located, and Togendai Station, located on the shore of Lake Ashinoko. The highest point is Owakuda...»
Owakudani is one of the most popular tourist spots in Hakone. Kamiyama, Hakone's highest peak, about 3,000 years ago, caused the last phreatic eruption of Hakone volcano, and even now hot steam and sulfur gushes out from the crater. The area smells of sulfur, and the desolate landscape of white smoke on the ground is a powerful reminder of volcanic activity. Black eggs, made from a chemical reacti...»
Located along Route 1 in Miyanoshita Onsen, Hakone, Fujiya Hotel is a famous classic hotel in Japan founded in 1878. It still retains its history today. Since its establishment with the aim of becoming a full-fledged resort hotel for foreigners, the hotel has been actively accommodating foreign guests and was designated as a hotel exclusively for foreigners at the end of the 19th century. As a r...»
In addition to 200 species of wetland plants scattered throughout Japan, from lowlands to alpine areas, the park is home to 1,100 species of grassland, forest, and alpine plants, as well as approximately 1,700 species of other plants, including rare foreign wildflowers, that bloom from season to season. The park paths lead visitors from the lowlands to the alpine meadows and early marshlands, in t...»
The museum exhibits the works of René Lalique (1860-1945), a French glassworker and jewelry designer. René Lalique was active in both Art Nouveau and Art Deco art styles. The collection contains approximately 1,500 works, of which about 230 are on permanent display. Visitors can view René Lalique's creative activities, including jewelry and decorative objects from his early years, glass works fr...»
A luxurious hotel registered as a national tangible cultural property has been renovated as a one-day spa facility. The Ryu Palace was relocated from a hotel built in 1938 on Bentenjima, a scenic spot on Lake Hamana, and had been operating as the Hakone Prince Hotel Japanese Style Annex since 1957. It is a luxurious hot spring facility where visitors can enjoy not only the building but also the ...»
With a collection of approximately 10,000 pieces of modern Western paintings, including Impressionist paintings centering on Monet and Renoir, Ecole de Paris, and 20th century paintings, it is known as one of the largest collections of Impressionist paintings in Japan. Located in Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, the POLA Museum of Art opened in 2002 under the concept of "Hakone, Nature and Art in H...»