The 1st day

Odawara west I.C

10:00 Lake Ashi.

The scenic area where Hakone which praises beautiful water in blue is best

The point, the surface of the lake which flashes and the mountain range where I turned a car to the southwest from Odawara western interchange and went down a mountain path are arrival in a view spot of beautiful Hakone one. It's in the caldera in a Hakone volcano, and a river is held back, and it's said that the earth and sand where I flowed by an eruption around the Owaku-dani Valley about 3100 years ago were built. When taking the "Hakone Akita Komaga take ropeway" which can get a bird's-eye view of a lake from peak and the "Hakone pirate ship" by which a tour for about 1 hour can enjoy a lake while taking a cruise, it can be satisfied with the refreshing scenery from the various angles. Lakeside is dotted with a highlight "Hakone shrine" "Hakone sekisho", and a restaurant and a gift shop are the tourist spot where I stand in a row.

11:00 Hakone shrine

Furuyashiro in the holy ground of mountain worship in antiquity and the Lake Ashi ridge in Mt. Hakone

The famous company the saint of numbers of books who received an oracle in Hakone Ogami in 757 in Nara era (the Tenpyo-hoji first year) established. MinamotoYoritomo also prospered as the shrine where Mr. regency Kitajo and Tokugawa Ieyasu collected reverences of the samurai family after that in Kamakura era. Many people visit in worship every year as better fortune yakuyoke and God of wish in one's mind accomplishment and the opening of luck of traffic safety present.
"Peaceful Torii" who has that it's popular in particular even in the Hakone shrine before he goes down a step of stone stairs from a main shrine, and "Yatate Sugi" (100 elections of Kanagawa distinguished tree) has also passed. The ideal photo spot which can take photograph with the deep red Torii which floats on Lake Ashi.

12:00 Lake Ashi terrace.

The Italian restaurant where firewood Kiln Roasted Food pizza of the commitment ingredients is a nonesuch

To the Italian restaurant where the fact for about 3 minutes to which I run through shrine street" in lakeside from the Hakone shrine and the viewing in a Lake Ashi ridge are outstanding. It's the pizza with the rich kind baked up to want to eat by all means here by a firewood kiln made in Italy. While the surface is crisply for the fabric made with Wheat Flour made in Naples, MOTCHIRI. I order tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese from Italy, am particular about the taste of the home and am making. "Margarita Pizza" the pizza using the material of the local stockbroker is also popular Masu Salmon as well as the standard etc.. Besides an appetizer and pasta and also a dessert with a lot of seafood which reaches from a fishing port of "Hakone west base Mishima vegetables" and a suburb are also enriched, and the nice lunchtime a resort sense is can be enjoyed.

13:00 Hakone old road

The walkway where a row of cedars and a stone pavement can invite emotions of the traveler and enjoy a hike beginner, too

I go out of "RA TERATTSA, Lake Ashi", and if a car is parked in Parking around the yuan Hakone intersection, walk is started. Tokaidoroad, when I turn to the right at the T-intersection which has finished going up a gentle slope to the east, a wooden pedestrian overpass is seen. Old road where previous Yamaji who crossed the bridge leads to Yumoto. The Shogunate is that a stone pavement was constructed in 1680 (1680), and origin tends to walk to the mountain pass in Hakone which was the mud way recently, and is the way with the history many people could come and go now. The past stone pavement maintains preservation from a Lake Ashi ridge to Hatajuku at present, and while being exposed to forest scents it's the course where you can take a walk.
Even "Amazakechaya" where one way for about 22 minutes is ahead of it from yuan Hakone to "old road stone pavement bus stop" is one way for about 30 minutes. Even if it's satisfied with an old road according to the physical strength, I return to yuan Hakone. There are also many mossy parts ups and downs, so a stone pavement recommends to enjoy oneself with the shoes used to walking tightly.

14:00 Amazakechaya.

Restaurant in the mountain pass which continues from the Edo Period when a traveler is entertained with Sweet Sake and sweets

From yuan Hakone, Tokaidoroad, sunshine filtering through foliage is comfortable to Yumoto district, a drive, 5-tea dealer who has met travelers warmly from the past while enjoying oneself for 6 minutes, is seeing. The taste to which I say that the building of an one-storied house where I thatched the roofs by cedar bark is the good sleep place which is a mountain pass really. There are an Irori (open fireplace) end and a Japanese-style room seat where the table where I cut the nature of the big wig into round slices takes off the shoes with ten and several tables and quiets down in the inside, in his own way, I loose at a place.
Your husband who will be thirteen generation eye to be entertaining a visitor with the past and the selection which doesn't change. The special "candy which loves Sweet Sake milk has complete set of the taste which becomes a memory in Hakone way for "black sesame rice cake coated with soybean flour" and summer of quantity limitation with a lot of soybean flour of sesame and blue soybeans in a front and back of "sweet drink made from fermented rice" of the natural taste made with only Malted Rice and salt and rice cake.

15:00 Hoshino Resorts KAI Hakone

Yunoshuku in Hakone GOKOCHI flooded with history of Tokaidoroad

Hot spring ryokan which faces along a Hakone old road in sukumo (make, spider) river, and pauses. Filled hospitality depends on the history various Experience of this place culture touches and by which it seems to be Hakone and a refinement sense with open bathing in half Outdoor hot spring and Traditional Pottery items "Hakone parquetry".

Recommended Guest room KAI Signature Rooms "between Hakone GOKOCHI Japanese and Western room with a clear stream living room"

The Japanese and Western office of the top floor which looks at Sukumogawa under Mt. Yusaka and the eyes in front of the big window. The table seat arranged by the window is the special seat where this view can be monopolized. Colorful "Hakone parquetry" equals tableware, a tray and Othello in the room, and it's seen and used actually, and charm of Traditional Pottery items can be tasted.

It's 15:30, restaurant

I take a rest relievedly at the restaurant established in a courtyard.

The space of cure where the traveler who comes and goes Hakone way formerly got idea for the tea dealer who asked relaxation and dropped in. You can look at the scenery of the each season and spend some time of the relaxation while receiving green tea and a dumpling.

17:30 KAI Cultural Discovery room

KAI Cultural Discovery where it can be present the moment it's rare, "ZUKU of parquetry is pulled, Experience"

The part of the production process which is Hakone parquetry in remodeled KAI Cultural Discovery, though I'm in inside of the building, Experience. I begin to shave "Taneki" who combined parts with the design of the plural with Common garden canna thin, "be", a wood does a pull actually and the moment it's reborn, can be present at beautiful parquetry.

In 19:30 Dining Area, dinner

Local delicacy of Hoshino Resorts KAI Hakone "Beef Hot Pot KAI Local Flavors in Meiji"

Place by Hakone Western food was fond from early times and where the gourmet food with which a traveler is entertained was brought up. Something of the level of Special Kaiseki course which expressed its wonderful by the mountain seafoods provided with every possible luxury, "Beef Hot Pot in Meiji". It can be satisfied with the taste best while driving expectation in former food culture like Miso with cherry tree fermented soybean paste from Kyoto.

21:00 Public hot spring

Clear stream, hot spring green looks and where is good and half Outdoor hot spring which had complete set of triple time

The open half open-type the wall aspect goes through Public hot spring, and where feeling of opening is much. The bathing by which only a brook is while feeling the cool style from the mountain during the quiet heard is special. When it's clear and I enter soft Hakone Yumoto hot spring per a surface, skin is slippery.

The 2nd day

In 08:00 Dining Area, breakfast

The this place breakfast among which the expectation which is "of travel, vigor" was included

I'm preparing a Japanese food table focusing on bamboo plate steamed using paste on the local relation in Hoshino Resorts KAI Hakone.

11:00 Hoshino Resorts KAI Hakone is left.

11:30 Yoriki GYARARITSUYUKI.

Great master's work is introduced to a life by stylish "Hakone parquetry".

The gallery shop where the front where I go out to Sagami-wan to the east from Hakone Yumoto is here along Hayakawa. The "Tsuyuki woodworking plant" where I succeed to technology of "Hakone parquetry" is doing, and all containers, interior attachments and room key chains of the parquetry I meet by "Hoshino Resorts KAI Hakone" are this work. "Life culture is created." the abundant life which lives as well as great master's work are proposed to a concept. They're three and a parent and child of Shidai eye that a work is being manufactured, and the style which feels a modern breath in the tradition is charm. I look at the art object displayed in a wall and the table in the store as well as using it and looking for the favorite one piece which can be done daily, and, as I go around, the space which can be enjoyed.

12:30 I forbid, wax CAFE&GRILL.

It's loved by a woman customer, too, I forbid, wax Rice Bowl steak

The "Hakone-guchi Garage gratitude square" near the south of the Odawara castle and the Tokaidoroad "the Hakone mouth" intersection. There is display of a street car which was running through the city and was enjoying formerly at the entrance, and a cafe, a patisserie and a flower studio are the popular new spot I line up ahead of it.
Sister store in the cafe where the cafe with an open big window is in the "gratitude Ninomiya shrine" where the Ninomiya Sontoku old man is made a deity. A lunchtime can enjoy a grill, fry and cooking of a steak with the place fish which seems to be a fishing port street and Odawara. Vegetables got on it much with a fleshy steak on the boiled rice with assorted ingredients of brown rice and pickles, "I forbid, wax Rice Bowl steak" is by a special source by which truffle smells. The record that one ate Takanori old man, and, the "Mashed Bean Soup" arranged modernly is also popular.

14:00 Odawara castle.

A castle and history, "it's seen, and, Experience, can", Odawara, best cultural heritage

It's in about 110,000 square meters of ruin of the castle park and is famous as a castle resided of a warring lord and Mr. Odawara Kitajo. It was a deserted castle sometime, but a donjon revives in 1960 (1960). An evergreen gate and copper gate (copper gate) etc. are also the valuable ruin of the castle where I'm being reconstructed and am telling the image in at that time soon one after another. Various material such as armor (armor), a sword, an ancient document and industrial art works is exhibited inside 5 story of donjon. Property where the Odawara castle history experience house NINJA house" built in "SAMURAI house" and a Ninomaru mark at the evergreen gate can enjoy history multilaterally is enriched. A castle and the cityscape floral taste is also know in the park as floral DOKORO of a hydrangea in a cherry tree, a wisteria and an iris, and charm a tourist in each season.

15:30 The station in a fishing port TOTOCO Odawara.

The gift search which is a local stockbroker product at the Odawara fishing port where seafoods from Sagami-wan are collected

Spot located in the west side of the Odawara fishing port where vast Sagami-wan is spread in immediateness. It's called treasure house= of fish (and, if) "and" the place which imagined an abundant fishing ground. Goods as much as about 1600 kinds equal fresh fish of direct delivery, live fish, local farm products, delicacy from sea Odawara and dish from Odawara fishing port at a local stockbroker product sales corner on the 1st floor, and it fits a gift search. There is takeout of dried fish of a basic gift and the sushi which dished up a rich ingredient for sushi as well as an artifact of boiled fish paste, and when being a little hungry during a drive, it's convenient.
An eating and drinking area enriches to the seafood cafeteria and the speciality store of curry and original seafood on rice in the 2nd floor and the 3rd floor. It's also recommended to go out to a view terrace between a purchase and a meal and look at the scenery of the vast sea and the state of the lively fishing port.