Hakone Pensions - Reviews and Rates

Hey, Today has been a very long day ! Took a day tour to Mt Fuji and Mt Komagatake in Hakone. The tour guide, Harry, was really good and told us loads of information about Japan and Japanese culture throughout the day. One thing I noticed, I remember reading a quote recently that goes something along the lines of; 'Travellers see what they see, ...

Enjoyed a `Western` (I`ve found an apostrophe-type character now, bye-bye colons) breakfast of pap bread and fruit, and headed off under my new best friend, Plastic Umbrella-san. Lady in ryokan gave me tourist map, so I obeyed it dutifully. I`m faaaar too flabby to attempt actually climbing the mountain, so just seeing it seemed like second-best...

This morning at breakfast we met many other travellers. About 10 of them were from Great Britian and were on a tour of Japan. During the course of "where were you yesterday, where are you going today?" Gary and I mentioned that we were on our own. We discussed our travel philosophy, that we would rather see less and enjoy the trip more and that ...