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Hakone

If you want to flee from the ocean of buildings in Tokyo, the Hakone national park is exactly the right place to go. You reach Hakone, which is about 60 km in the south of Tokyo, with the train leaving from Shinjuku after nearly two hours. At the beginning, I visited Moto-Hakone and the Hakone shrine.

Picture Sources: Own exposures. Lake Ashi in Hakone national park and Hakone shrine.

You reach Hakonemachi after walking along "Ancient Cedar Avenue". If you have a good sight, you can see mount Fuji in between of these two towns, unfortunately the sight was not very well during my trip, although they talked of sunshine at the information center in Tokyo. I went on with a ship over lake Ashi towards Togendai.

Picture Sources Own exposure. Pirate ship.

In Togendai, you transfer to the ropeway to cross the mountains. In Owakudani all geographs can remind their special knowledges when seeing the sulphur gases rise from the vulcanic ground. Unfortunately, the weather became worse and so I have a reason to come back to Hakone once again, because I didn't see everything - in particular Mt. Fuji!

Picture Source: Own exposure. Vulcanic ground.