




Hakone: Day Tour to View Mt Fuji & Wooden Culture Experience
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.
- Visit 400-years tea house with thatched roof at old highway-500km from Kyoto
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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Hakone: Day Tour to View Mt Fuji & Wooden Culture Experience
- 8h
- English
What's included, what's not
- Guiding fee only
- Hakone Free Pass ticket during this tour for guest and your guide (from Hakone Yumoto station to Hakone Yumoto, adult: JY5000-6000, child(6-11years): JY1100-1400
- Lunch (around JY2000) for guest and your guide
- Drink fee at Tea House (JY500) for guest and your guide
- Swan pedal boat fee (JY1500 for max 3 guests)
- In case you select option (Hakone Open-Air Museum),
- The entrance fee for guest and guide: JY2000 per person.
- Overtime guiding fee: JY2,300 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, basically 8 hours), Enjoy All “Must-Sees” in Your First/Second Visiting Hakone!
8:00am) Meet at “Hakone-Yumoto” or “Odawara” station, please note the meeting time may be changeable upon your staying hotel. In order to fix our meeting time and place, Munetaka sends you some questions within a few days after your booking. You are recommended to stay at Hakone/Odawara area one day before because it takes around two hours from Tokyo.
1) Buy your Hakone Free Pass (it is a discount ticket for guest and guide, which costs JY5000-6100/adult, JY1100-1400/6-11year-old child)
2) Visit “Yosegi-zaiku(wooden handicraft marquetry)” workshop running more than 200 years –secret box etc.–, you can listen to the 7th generation artisan's explanation of the production process and enjoy shopping (reservation must be done in advance by Munetaka, staying 25min)
3) Visit an old tea house with a thatched roof of 400 years in deep cedar forest on side of Old Tokaido Highway (located 500km from Kyoto), enjoy “Amazake” (non-alcohol & mold-fermented rice-drink, non-sugar, JY500 per person, by cash) and can sit at the fired hearth talking with 13th generation master (reservation must be done before one week, staying 25min),
4) Visit “Hakone Shrine” to pray for our peace, where is located aside “Lake Ashi” by walking 30+30 minutes on foot or getting on swan-pedal-boat on Lake (JY1500/30min/max 3 persons), let's decide on site. Let's take photos at great red Torii Gate as background.
5) Get on cursing ship on Lake Ashi (40min) to enjoy the beautiful peaceful scenery!
6) Ride No.1 ropeway (30min) to climb up to an active volcanic Valley “Owakudani altitude 1044m” to view Mt Fuji (if weather is fine, no clouds) and smell sulfured gases from the earth. Try famous black eggs (JY500/4 pcs, cash only) to extend your life by seven years per one.
7) At Owakudani, let's have a little bit earlier lunch (delicious curry rice, vegetable one also available) Please let me know if you have any dietary allergies or restrictions.
8) Get on No.2 ropeway + cable-car (15min+15 min) back to Hakone-Yumoto by riding Hakone Mountain Train(40min) that adopts switch-back operation for mountain's steep (80 per mil), it is the world-second steepest next to Switzerland Mountain Train.
8) Reach Hakone Yumoto station around 16:00 (end of tour)
This tour is to ride five kinds of transportation 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 transportation, weather conditions etc.
PS: If you want to stop over at “Hakone Open-Air Museum as option” where 320 artworks of Picasso have, 120 works of Moore, Rodin etc. (entrance fee: JY2000 per person + overtime guiding fee one hour: JY2300), 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