Hakone 2019: Doing it all again before departure
When I got up in the morning on my departure day from Hakone I had two choices: I could either leave for Tokyo now, or…
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Hakone 2019: Hakone Black Eggs
While I was taking shelter from the storm up at Owakudani I bought a bag of Hakone Black Eggs. There are pools of water near…
Hakone 2019: A quick ride to finish the day
It was late in the afternoon when I left the Hakone Checkpoint and went back to Hakone-machi to catch a short ride on one of…
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Hakone 2019: Hakone Checkpoint (箱根関所)
At Hakone-machi I got off the sightseeing boat to pay a visit to the reconstruction of the Hakone Checkpoint. Hakone used to be on an…
Hakone 2019: Cruising Lake Ashinoko
When I got back to Togendai Station I went down to the pier to catch one of the sightseeing boats that cruises around Lake Ashinoko.…
Hakone 2019: Sengokuhara Pampas Grass Field (仙石原すすき草原)
Having come down from Owakudani, I next caught a bus that took me a few minutes down the road to the Sengokuhara Pampas Grass Field.…
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Hakone 2019: Owakudani (大涌谷)
The rain had come to a stop when I woke up on my first morning in Hakone but it would resume before I headed out…
Hakone 2019: Hakone Shrine (箱根神社)
Right by Lake Ashinoko’s torii gate are the stairs leading up to Hakone Shrine. Tradition says that Hakone Shrine was first founded in the year…
Hakone 2019: Arrival in Hakone
At Nagano Station I boarded a shinkansen (bullet train) that brought me down to Tokyo where I’d connect to another shinkansen bound for Odawara. Arriving…
Japan-Korea 2019: The Return to Kanto
We’re now down to the last week of my 2019 journey and it was at this point that I finally came back to the Kanto…
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