Hakone Private Tours & Local Tour Guides

Keith W.

5 / 5

Jul 24, 2024

One day Hakone tour for your great experience

Hakone

9 hours

Customized

Jul 24, 2024

“A trip to Hakone with Kashima well worth it”

Kashima expertly guided my son and I with a day tour of Hakone. All the logistics for the day were smooth and exactly as promised, and Kashima matched his pace to ours. He was very attentive to detail, and spent a lot of effort to explain the history and geology of Hakone in a very useful and interesting way. Hakone itself was beautiful, and I especially enjoyed visiting the checkpoint on the former Tokkaido Road and the replica waystation there. Kashima took care to optimize our time with him, and returned us exactly where we needed to be to continue our onward trip. Excellent day in Hakone with Kashima, and I would recommend!

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Kashima H.

(75 reviews)

Keith san, thank you very much for your upmost review for me. I am very much pleased that you and your son could very much enjoyed this tour. Hakone is located in a big Caldera and 4 small calderas created inside the big caldera which had been created by repeated eruption from 40k years ago to 3k years ago. Those nature power had created lots of good hot springs and enormous beautiful nature such as Oowakudani valley, Lake-Ashi and small mountain accumulated by lava where Hakone shrine located. As such, Hakone is the nature and historical culture theme park with well prepared original transportation such as Hakone Tozan railway, cable car, Ropeway, Pirate cruising on Lake-Asi and Tozan bus. Thanks to you and your son strong curiosity, we could exchange various information and interesting conversation. I hope that you visit Japan again with your family in near future so that I can introduce other nice tour spots in Japan for you. Thanks, Kashima

“Wonderful visit to Hakone with Kaneo”

Our group of six had a wonderful fun packed day visiting Hakone. Kaneo was very kind and helped us navigate with all our bookings for trains and various other modes of transport. He guided us to all the must see spots in Hakone and we couldn’t have asked for a better guide than Kaneo. He has a very personable nature and all of us felt very comfortable with him. He made sure we were all very comfortable during the trip and it was evident he wanted us all to have a great time which we did.

Kaneo U.

(48 reviews)

Thank you for your warm review. In spite of of a traffic accident, we could meet your cousins at Odawara station. I was surprised to know they came from India. I felt happy to know you were satisfied with my guide. I hope I could have a chance to guide you again someday.

“Fabulous Trip To Hakone”

Tomoko is perfection as a guide. She is very knowledgeable, professional, flexible, prepared, and most of all a kind and fun companion. Our family of 4 (2 kids aged 12 & 10) wanted to have one day-trip out of Tokyo and chose to have Tomoko accompany us to Hakone, which turned out to be one of the best decisions I made in planning our trip. I know that many people undertake this trip on their own, but I am certain that without Tomoko, we would not have had the ease, efficiency, and pleasant experience we did. Tomoko really went out of her way to make sure that we had a great day. She had contingency plans for bad weather, she purchased our train tickets and kept track of them all day, translated for us all day, and even accompanied us around the gift shop in case we had a question about what something was :) I could not recommend her more highly and would not hesitate to hire her again for any adventures we have in Japan!

Tomoko H.

(172 reviews)

Thank you for the lovely review, Heather! It was raining and Hakone was crowded on one of the three-day weekends, so there were some difficulties, but I was relieved to hear that you enjoyed the trip. We enjoyed learning together about the unique scenery at Owakudani, the formation of Hakone, and the process of making black eggs. Black ice cream that I enjoyed with Zoe and Hannah was also fun! Although Hakone is a tricky place because wind and rain can sometimes cause the area transportation to stop running, we were glad to be able to return home comfortably on the Shinkansen at the end of the tour. Thank you again, Heather, Jim, Zoe, and Hannah sharing great time and lots of fun with me!