Wrote about the Hakone Free Pass and its first stop at Yumoto. After you reached Gora, there is an interesting “cable car” that brings you upslope to the next stop… The Gora station and its vicinity is a very pretty…
The Hachiko Statue at the Shibuya Exit of the JR train station. Follow the same instructions on the previous post, and you can see it immediately upon exit of the train station. Don’t know what this is ! Japan has…
I am sure you have seen the Shibuya Crossing in movies and TV shows. It is located in front of the Shibuya Station (the famous Hachikō exit) and stops vehicles in all directions to allow pedestrians to inundate the entire…
Hakone Free Pass. A few posts ago, I talked about the Hakone Free Pass and how you can travel around Hakone with it. The first stop is, of course, the Hakone-Yumoto. But to reach there, if you have reached Odawara…
A few posts ago, I talked about the Hakone Free Pass and how you can travel around Hakone with it. One of the stop on the route is the Owakudani. Owakudani is the volcanic vent of Mt. Kami which was…
In my previous blog post on Japan, I wrote about taking the bullet train to Odawara so that I can do the Hakone Circuit. What is the Hakone Circuit ? Hakone is about 1.5 hours away from Shinjuku station and…