Hakone trip guides
Tickets, getting around, where to stay, where to eat and what to do with your suitcase. Read them in any order.
What each guide answers
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ReadTransport and tickets
Which Hakone Freepass to buy, why the 2-day pass pays off even on a day trip, the separate Romancecar seat, and what to do when the ropeway or the pirate ship stops.
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ReadWhere to stay
Five hotels and ryokan between Sengokuhara and Lake Ashi, compared by the Day 2 boat, meals, payment, dietary needs and tattoo rules.
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ReadWhere to eat
Curry upstairs in the ropeway station at Owakudani, lunch by the pier at Moto-Hakone, and what to do when the weather or a queue changes the plan.
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ReadLuggage
Where to leave the suitcase in Shinjuku for the 8:00 Romancecar, or how to send it to your hotel from Hakone-Yumoto if you are not going back.
Photo credits (4)
These photos are from Wikimedia Commons and are used under the licences shown.
- “Hakone Ropeway @ From Owakudani to Togendai” by Guilhem Vellut, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized and converted to WebP.
- “Hakone-yumoto” by 小田原 (Odawara), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Resized and converted to WebP. This adapted version is also licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- “Hotel Green Plaza Hakone 2018” by Alvinz, CC0 1.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped, resized and converted to WebP.
- “Ōwakudani Station 20211202” by Suicasmo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped, resized and converted to WebP. This adapted version is also licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.