Welcome to Episode 2 of our Japan Travel Series! In this episode, we embark on an adventure to Hakone, but not without a few hiccups along the way. Join us as we navigate a mix-up with our hotel reservations and share valuable tips about the train ride and routes we took from the airport to Hakone.
Our journey includes a visit to the fascinating 大涌谷 (Owakudani fumarolic zone). Despite the cable car closure due to weather conditions, we managed to drive up and capture some unique footage, even though visibility was limited.
We also explore the Kamaboko Museum, where I take you through our fun experience making fish cakes. Additionally, I provide a tour of our hotel rooms, showcase the all-inclusive meals, and highlight the fantastic facilities available.
Towards the end of the video, I share a special mission with you—helping my daughter visit as many Pokémon Centers as possible during our trip.
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Hotels
. 1st Hotel : Yumoto Fujiya Hotel – https://www.yumotofujiya.jp/
. 2nd Hotel : Hakone Kowakien Hotel (Highly Recommended) – https://www.hakone-hotelkowakien.jp/
Attractions
https://www.hakone.or.jp/od-booking/
https://www.kamaboko.com/
English is already hard for me. Please “excuse”, “forgive” and “correct” my Japanese pronunciation in the comment section. Thank you so much!
in previous episode we talked about the overall plan for this trip in Japan in today’s video I want to take you to hawan a I asked my daughter where she wanted to go in Japan she came up with a list of Pokémon Center she wanted to visit that became one of the mission on this trip and I’ll tell you more about it we landed late at night my daughter wanted to have an experience staying in a capsule Hotel the capsule hotel is located at Terminal 2 if you’re interested by the way the the retail Port has perfect terminal shuttles going around the three terminals to check on their schedule though I don’t think they run overnight so yesterday we supposed to stay in the Capo hotel but I made a mistake and I made a booking for about a month later so we could we couldn’t get a space we ended up looking for another hotel nearby at the airport we have to rush back here this morning because we need to go to the Pokemon Center if you have noticed the first Pokémon Center on my daughter’s wish list is located right at Narita [Music] Airport I think the best option for us to leave the airport is by Narita Express and then transfer to the shingan Shen to haket I want to talk about Google Map the default setting is going to show you the earliest departure options you have but it doesn’t mean they have shown you all the op options for earliest arrival time in this case if I choose to wait 15 more minutes at my starting point I actually arrived at Haw conate half an hour earlier because of the shingun S options it may cost more but it depends on your priority at the time we wanted to make sure we had the right schedule and ticket types so we got our tickets directly from the Jr ticketing office this is going to be our first lunch in Japan at each Shin gansen station you’ll find one or more sharp selling pantos it is okay to bring food onto the train but you just need to properly clean up after your meal I have about an hour to recharge there were a few attractions we wanted to visit in hakon the Kam Museum I’ll leave links on the description section the hakon tosan cable car the aaku Dan Valley unfortunately the trail was closed when we were there because of the weather condition I’ll also walk you through the two onset hotels we were staying at the kamaboko museum has many activities for family be sure you have made reservation online ahead of time I’ll leave some information on the description section e [Music] [Music] p [Music] [Music] [Music] forch [Music] [Music] [Music] very let’s pick up our little project mine didn’t look that good but the taste was amazing when it was fresh the hotel we stay that was inclusive with dinner and breakfast we’re heading back to check [Music] in I wasn’t sure if we were doing it right but this was how we built our Sho shoo the dinner was a set so we didn’t need to choose the ingredient we first put butter on the pan and and all the green onions meat vegetables and then we add the sauce after dinner we went up to the on Sand the facilities was very good I wasn’t allowed to do any filming there of course I’m very confident about their tap water look at how clean their drainage is we had some good sleep and we were about to go go down for breakfast and then we were ready to head out again surprisingly they serve ice cream in the morning so in here we are supposed to take the cable car but because of the weather conditions they stopped running so we have to try to drive they say it’s pretty windy there on the road so um hopefully it’s okay is suspended due to strong winds visibility was very low because of all the smoke the wind and the rain but the shops were [Music] open these are the famous black egg and they taste like [Music] eggs when we came out from the store the direction of the wind changed it gave us less than a minute of clearance to see the actual volcanic site we did a little bit of shopping at the Village these are croutons in different flavor they like chips they are very good this is another of my [Music] favorite checking in at our the second Hotel the location is about 20 minutes drive from the shinan San station the facility is very new and it feels like a high-end western style hotel at the same time it is an onand Hotel there’s a library or reading area right outside of the rooms it was perfect for me to wake up early and work without disturbing my family in terms of location I think the first one is perfect it’s right by the train station and it walks about you can get there by like 10 15 minutes it’s pretty convenient and you can find a lot of restaurants around and you can also do a lot of shopping so but these hotels is a completely different experience I haven’t checked whether they have shuts or not um I saw they do have a van if you call they probably pick you up from the station if you’re traveling with kids or young teens it is going to be exciting news traditional onand hotels may not be that fun for kids sometimes but within 10 minutes walk from these second hotels that we’re staying right across the street there’s a small onand water park that may be some new experiences for your kids if you’re staying in this hotel you have unlimited access to the facilities just like the onand within the hotel you just need to pick up a restant from the fun desk the water park has different collaboration with different elates from time to time at the time of our visit it was my daughter’s favorite blue [Music] lock the hotel is all inclusive so the buffet is included so for people like me that I always work at night uh they do have 24 hours coffee and tea provided in the next episode we will almost lad to our kiry Cafe reservation we also start checking out the elime stores and few others famous attractions hope I will see you on the next [Music] video from her list she was missing the Pokémon store that is closer to the Fuji m Mountain Area from our hakan hotel it will take about 2 to 2 and 1/ half hour train ride but it will only take about 45 minutes if we are driving I have never driven outside of us before but we did rent a car to support her adventure and these remain one of her favorite in the collection if you do like this video so far Please Subscribe and like I really appreciate it I think I lost I lost half of it
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Thanks for the great information + video!