We got up very early today, and waited at Shinjuku station for the train to Hakone.
The trip took about 90 minutes in a very nice train, and before we knew it we had arrived at the popular vacation town in the mountains.
We were doing the ‘freepass circuit’ and the next leg of our trip was the Hakone-Tozen railroad which utilizes 3 switchbacks as it rises to nearly 500m elevation. This in turn was followed by a cable car…
And then a rope way…
…over sulfur-spewing mountainside to the top of Owakaduni mountain.
The rain had come out by this point, but I was prepared (after a quick Y500 stop at the shop!)
The commode in the facility behind me had perfectly understandable instructions on how to use the robotoilet:
At Owakaduni you can walk further up the mountain to the hot springs where a local specialty is sulfur-boiled egg. Here’s the crowds eating said eggs:
The pool in the bottom left is where the eggs are boiled in cages:
Lunch was simple…
….and followed by a treat…
….a quick unintentional use of an employees only crapper…
…and then the trip on the next leg of the rope way down to a volcanic crater lake.
The next leg of the trip was on this:
And we were all silly tired by now:
And after I ate a Hot Dog…
And regretted not buying SFL an ear-cleaner…
We started the journey home, ten hours after we’d started! Bernard’s feeling a lot better, but all of us are aching and painting a bit now!
Another great day in Nippon 🙂