This is a Private Tour (one group only, basically 8 hours), Enjoy All "Must-Sees" in Your First/Second Visiting Hakone!

8:00am) Meet at "Hakone-Yumoto" or "Odawara" station, please note the meeting time may be changeable upon your staying hotel. In order to fix our meeting time and place, Munetaka sends you some questions within a few days after your booking. You are recommended to stay at Hakone/Odawara area one day before our tour because it takes around two hours from Tokyo.

1) Buy your Hakone Free Pass (it is a discount ticket for guest and guide, which costs JY5000-6000/adult, JY1100-1400/ages 6-11)
2) Visit "Yosegi-zaiku(wooden handicraft marquetry)" workshop running more than 200 years --secret box etc.--, you can listen to the 7th generation artisan's explanation of the production process directly and enjoy shopping (reservation must be done before one week at latest by Munetaka, staying 25min)
3) Visit an old tea house with a thatched roof of 400 years in deep cedar forest on side of Old Tokaido Highway (located 500km from Kyoto), enjoy "Amazake" (non-alcohol & mold-fermented rice-drink, non-sugar, JY500 per person, by cash) and can sit at the fired hearth talking with 13th generation master (reservation must be done before one week at latest, staying 25min),
4) Visit "Hakone Shrine" to pray for our peace, where is located aside "Lake Ashi" by getting on swan-pedal-boat on Lake (JY1500/30min/max 3 persons) or walking 30+30 minutes on foot. Let's take photos at great red Torii Gate as background.
5) Get on cursing ship on Lake Ashi (40min.), to view Mt Fuji in case of fine weather and enjoy the beautiful peaceful scenery!
6) Ride No.1 ropeway (30min) to climb up to an active volcanic Valley "Owakudani altitude 1044m" to view Mt Fuji and smell sulfured gases gashing out from the earth. Try the famous black eggs (JY500/4 pcs) to extend your life by seven years per one.
7) At Owakudani, let's have a little bit earlier lunch (delicious curry rice, vegetable one also available) Please let me know if you have any dietary allergies or restrictions in advance.
8) Get on No.2 ropeway + cable-car (15min+15 min), then back to Hakone-Yumoto station by riding Hakone Mountain Train(40min) that adopts switch-back operation for mountain's steep (80 per mil), it is the second steepest in the world, next to Switzerland Mountain Train.
8) Arrive at Hakone Yumoto station around 16:00 (end of tour)

*This tour is to utilize five kinds of transportation with Odakyu-Hakone Free Pass to go around all Hakone.
*The staying time at each spot/the order of visiting spots will be changeable due to the situation of the transportation, weather conditions etc.

PS: If you want to stop over at "Hakone Open-Air Museum" where 320 artworks of Picasso have, 120 works of Moore, Rodin etc. (entrance fee: JY2000 per person + overtime guiding fee one hour: JY2300), please let me know at your booking time, Munetaka will recreate the detailed time schedule separately.