Day Fourteen: HAKONE. This day was pretty much my main event and what I had scheduled the whole trip around - a night at the Hakone Ginyu. First we put our baggage into the Miyanoshita staion lockers to avoid lugging it later and started the Hakone round trip. We caught a bus with our Hakone Tozan free pass down to Moto Hakone, caught the ship across Lake Ashi, Ropeway up to the volcano and cablecar back down to Gora. Its really lovely in Hakone but very very touristy - since it is only a short trip from Tokyo.
View of Fuji from the Hakone-tozan ropeway
Hakone Ginyu. Wow. So this place is pretty much uber expensive, but I didnt think about the price once. It is extremely close to the station, just a walk past the busstop and you are there, but you would never know it. You walk through the doors and its like you have been transported. I love interiors and details so everything about Ginyu was just sublime to me. So many details, so immaculate. The service was incredible, the room was breathtaking. It was traditional japanese and there were two seperate toilets, a bar room, a sleeping room, a dining room, a bathroom, an inside bath, an outside bath on the balcony, another sitting room on the balcony - it was extreme. There was a bar on the first floor and a balinese bar on the ground floor. The public onsens were incredible - just everything was. If you can afford to stay here, do it! If you can afford two nights, even better! Dinner and breakfast was served in the room, and both were excellent.
Dinner - the presentation was amazing!
Downstairs Balinese bar, practically a private bar there are so few guests
View from the onsen, this would look spectacular in spring/summer!
One of our two onsen, this was the outdoor balcony one.
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