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Date: May 2008

 

11th-16th April 2008

Day 4 Hakone Kowakien

My parents haven’t visited Hakone Kowakien before (last time they visited Tokyo and the tour guide only brought them to Mount Fuji><), so today we are heading to Hakone Kowakien - a well-known hot spring resort. We are not very interested in trying the hot spring so we simply spend a day here.

We get up at 6am this morning and go to Hakone by Odakyu Electric Railway’s Odawara line. The train would arrive at 7:49am and we arrived 20 minutes earlier; however, we still missed the train. Why? Because we waited at the wrong platform!

We are at Odawara now! Let’s go to Yumoto!

We didn’t have breakfast this morning so we find this bean curd store and buy some food. To find this store, we asked some Japanese people - they all know about this store and they are very nice! In Shinjuku people are just too busy to help us!

This is a small place and we are eating bean curd, sesame bean curd…all of them are yummy!

We have finished all of them!

It’s time to go now! We are heading to Kowakien with the ￥5,000 fare!The fare allows us to use many kinds of transport such as the cable car and the tram for two days!

We are in the tram now and the cloud is near us - it is not fog!

This is not a  high tech tram, the train operator has to transfer from one end of the tram to the other for the return trip.

It seems that we can touch the cloud here, and we are in the cable car now!

Smoke/fog and sulfur are everywhere!

This is the bell of happiness.

The black egg x Hello Kitty!

The Kowakien’s Hello Kitty.

The far far away Hakone Kowakien.

We walked for more then 10 minutes to come to here, but last time I came here I simply walked for a while - weird!

The hot hot spring and by this we can eat the black egg!

The only black egg store here is near Kowakien, and every visitor must buy a pack of 6 eggs. It is said that one egg can extend our life for seven years, and each of us eat 1.5 eggs!