Hakone 1

After a fairly hot and busy summer, I set off with my mother for a week long trip around Japan (or a portion of it).  First stop: Hakone.  Hakone is a hop, skip and a jump away from Tokyo which makes it a nice weekend getaway or even a long day trip.  The Odakyu line has a free pass (not free but all you can ride) which includes the roundtrip ticket from Tokyo as well as all the different modes of transportation within Hakone (train, cable car, ropeway, pirate ship and bus).  Hakone is a well planned, easy-to-follow sight-seeing destination as it forms a loop around the town, full of various stop-offs for varying interests.  Hakone to be continued…