Hakone

On the 18th, Sakura and I went on a two-day trip to Hakone, a famous sight-seeing area located about an hour and a half away from Tokyo by train. Hakone is mostly famous for being a hot spot for onsen (hot springs - pun probably intended), but there's a lot more to do then sit in extremely hot slightly sulfurous water all day.










The first picture is just the first picture taken when we got off the train. Hakone is located in and around mountains, so if you look in any direction you're probably going to see one. It was a nice change of scenery. The second picture was taken from the "Hakone Ropeway," a pretty neat form of transportation. The next picture is the Ryokan (traditional Japanese inn) where we stayed. It was quite nice though not dissimilar from the previous Ryokan I stayed at last year. You are supposed to be able to see Mt. Fuji from Lake Ashinoko, but as you can see in the last picture it was a bit too cloudy on the second day of our visit.