Day 10 - Hakone

Leaving tokyo to stay at Hakone for one night. We can try to book a hotel with hot spring there.

1. Get Hakone Free pass
Hakone has been one of Japan's most popular hot spring resorts for centuries. Nowadays, more than a dozen springs provide hot spring water to the many bath houses and ryokan in the Hakone region.

Yumoto, at the entrance to the Hakone area near Odawara, is Hakone's most famous hot spring with a particularly long history, high quality water and numerous baths and inns. But many more hot spring baths can be found in the valleys and mountains of Hakone and at the shores of Lake Ashi.

Visitors can enjoy a hot spring bath in a public bath house or ryokan, as many ryokan open their baths not only to staying guests but also to daytime visitors. While staying guests can use the baths for free, daytime visitors pay an admission fee of typically between 500 and 2000 Yen.

Below is a small selection of baths, which are open to the general public (shown as blue marks on the map):



Yumoto:


Tenzan
Collection of nicely done hot spring pools, mostly outdoors at the foot of a wooded slope. The bath house is a beautiful traditional Japanese style building.
Open daily 9:00 to 22:00; 1200 Yen; Short walk from "Oku-Yumoto Iriguchi" bus stop (5 minutes, 220 Yen from Yumoto Station along the Old Tokaido)


Yu No Sato Okada
Various pools, mainly outdoors. Nice views of the valley can be enjoyed from the bath house, but unfortunately not from the pools.
Open daily 11:00 to 23:00; 1600 Yen on weekdays, 1800 Yen on weekends/holidays; 10 minute hotel shuttle bus ride from Yumoto Station (100 Yen) to Okada Hotel


Hakone No Yu
Several pools, some with massage jets, mainly outdoors, but without view.
Open daily 10:00 to 22:00; 1000 Yen; A few steps from "Dai No Chaya" bus stop (5 minutes, 220 Yen from Yumoto Station along the Old Tokaido)