Hakone is a volcanic mountain and onsen hot spring resort about 1 hour from Tokyo, en route to Kyoto. It is efficient to travel around the Lake Ashi, Hakone Shrine, volcanic fumarole, museums and historical sites using a Hakone Free Pass or by a chartered car. If there is any particular place you wish to visit, please let your guide know your request!
Odawara, Hakone-Yumoto or your hotel in Hakone
Odawara, Hakone-Yumoto or your hotel in Hakone
Your itinerary will be customized based on your requests and interests.
guide fee and related arrangement
guide's transportation to the meeting spot in Hakone
Half-day tour (within 4 hours) is also available for 40000 yen for a group of 8 people or less.
Transportation fee during the tour (you and guide): ¥5000 for Hakone Free Pass per person from Odawara (¥6100 from Shinjuku), lunch, admission fees (¥1500 for Narukawa Art Museum, ¥2000 for Open-Air Museum, ¥500 for Hakone Checkpoint)
This is a fully-customized tour. The items on the itinerary are examples, and all of them do not fit in a one-day tour. The guide will arrange your itinerary listening to your requests.
The guide lives near Hakone and Odawara, and the tour basically starts from these areas. Please ask the guide for availability if you wish to have a hotel pick-up service from Tokyo or elsewhere.
View of Mt. Fuji and some of the ride attractions depend on weather, and the latter is also affected by intensity of volcanic activity.
Customers with cardiac and respiratory diseases are not advised to take the aerial gondola over the Owakudani Valley (fumarole field). Please consult the guide for an alternative plan.
If you are staying at a hotel near Shinjuku, you may want to use Odakyu Romancecar, which you can ride using a Hakone Free Pass from Shinjuku to Hakone-Yumoto, by paying additional express charge of ¥1110.
If you have a JR Pass, or staying at a hotel near Tokyo or Shinagawa station, Shinkansen bullet train to Odawara may be fast and convenient.
There are a number of spots and hiking courses with views of Mt. Fuji around Hakone. There are many fine museums, which you can enjoy even on a rainy day. If you charter a car, Mt. Fuji (5th stations), a whisky distillery, tea farms open to visitors are accessible. No time to be bored.
Five stars to Fumie. She is very kind and very knowledgeable about the area. We were a big group and she happily helped all of us with a smile on her face.
Thank you Jorge san, for using me yesterday. Your group was fantastic. It was my great pleasure to be a part of your special vacation.
Wonderful tour and Fumie was able to change everything when we realized that the day of the tour would be rainy. She moved everything up a day earlier and did a great job of planning a fun day and allowing us to see all the highlights. Highly recommend Fumie!
Thank you, Rebecca, for using me and writing a good review. I am glad to hear you enjoyed your tour with me. I am also grateful that everything worked out quite well despite change of the date.
Fumie helped us navigate a complex application and scheduling process for us to obtain the FISCO license in order to race on the Fuji Speedway track. She was very detail oriented and proactive in helping us coordinate with the management company as well as the race car supplier. She did a fantastic job translating on-site, and was very responsive and punctual. We will definitely be using Fumie’s services in the future when we come back to race!
Thank you, Keith san, for using my service and writing a good review. I am glad you enjoyed the day at Fuji Speedway. I hope to see your wife and kids in Japan in the future, too! Thanks!
Fumie is an incredible guide and extremely professional. From the start, she planned a fabulous day to maximize our sightseeing for the day. We arrived from Tokyo and she let us know the best train to start our day and was waiting for us as we exited the station. We beat the crowds!!! Our day started with a ropeway ride, a pirate ship on Lake Ashi geological tour, eating black eggs , a lovely udon shop, a parquetry shop,, a lovely walk on the old cedar line road. We were fortunate to see Mt Fuji ! It was a day we will always remember! And yes…Fumie made sure we got to all these spots seamlessly.
Thank you, Hope-san, for letting me work for your wonderful family, and for a great review! I hope you will bring the best memories of Hakone home and come back to Japan someday.