Day 10: Hakone

We were served the Japanese equivalent of a fry-up: raw fish, rice and several bowls of an unrecognisable gelatinous goo. I had a go at most of the dishes, but Gemma couldn't stomach Sushimi that early in the day so a lot of it went back uneaten.



After breakfast and an early visit to the bathes we headed out to see the mountains. We spent most of the morning at Hakone's open air art museum and then grabbed lunch at a restuarant called the Gyoza centre. Gyoza are one of my favourite foods and here they made them in 19 different ways!



Next we took a cable car up over to the sulphur mine at Owakudani. There are supposed to be good views of Mount Fuji from this area but the weather was so bad we couldn't spot it at all. We came back down the other side of the mountain and then took a boat trip across Lake Ashi, supposedly another good viewing point, but there was just too much cloud today.



We took a bus back to the Ryokan where we had another huge meal (this time of Shabu Shabu with tasty Wagyu beef) and then hired out a private bath over the river.