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Hakone's Best: One-Day Nature and History Car Tour with a Licensed guide
Joined 2018
Why don't you travel efficiently by car?
Enjoy nature, culture, and food in Hakone!
Your guide will drive you wherever you like in the Hakone area in English, Chinese, and a little Spanish.
*The tour starts and ends in the Hakone area.
*If starts and ends in Tokyo: +$200, 9 hours
My SUZUKI K-cars
1 Wagon R Stingray TS, 2008
2 Alto Turbo RS, 2017
・small but powerful with 660cc engine with turbo
・accommodates 3 guests maximum
・not so spacious nor as comfortable as Mercedes
・with insurance
Itinerary
This itinerary can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Send me a message with your requests!
Meeting Point
Hakone-Yumoto station (Odakyu line) or other places in Hakone area.
- The guide will pick you up at the station or other places in the Hakone area.
Wherever you want to go within and around Hakone Area
Please choose the destinations you want to go.
(approximately 4 -5 places)
Model Course:
Hakone-Yumoto station-Amazakechaya(tea house)-Old Tokaido Road (Cedar Avenue)-Old Check Point-Hakone-Lake Ashi(Motohakone)-Hakone Shrine-Owakudani Valley-Hakone-Yumoto station
attractions and fees per adult in JPN:
Owakudani Valley (1500 if you ride a cable car)
Ashinoko lake boat cruise 1000yen or 1200yen(pirate ship)
Old Hakone Checkpoint Site 500yen
Hakone Shrine
Old Tokaido Road (Cedar Avenue and/or the Cobbled Roads)
Motohakone town (lunch, shopping)
Amazake-chaya (tea house on the old Tokaido road)
Museums;
Hakone Open Air Museum 1600yen
Hakone Museum 1300yen
Lalique Museum Hakone 1500yen
Venetian Glass Museum 1800yen
Okada Museum 2800yen
Pola Museum 1800yen
Narukawa Museum (with a great view of Mt.Fuji) 1,500yen
The guide will be willing to help you make a customized itinerary.
Ending Point
Hakone-Yumoto station or other places in the Hakone area
Want to personalize this tour?
This tour can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Click below to send me a message with your requests.
Inclusions & Exclusions
Guide Fee
Fuel and parking fees
Admission fees
lunch
Transportation expenses other than by the guide's car
Tour Important Information
*My two cars are both small with no trunk room.
*Each car accommodates max. 3 guests.
*You cannot be with your large baggage in a car.
*People over 190 cm would not fit in, and may not feel comfortable in my car.
The duration of the tour can be varied.
You can start and/or finish the tour at your hotel.
Please contact for details.
Cancellation Policy
- Free cancellation - 8 days prior to meeting time
- 50% Refund - 3 to 7 days prior to meeting time
- No Refund - Within 2 day(s) prior to meeting time
Joined 2018
About Tour Guide Seigo U.
Hi.
I’m Seigo.
I am a licensed guide in both English and Chinese. I can speak Spanish just a little bit.
I enjoy listening to music, watching sports, driving in my car, and learning new languages in my free time.
Since I have lived in Kanagawa my whole life, I can offer satisfying private customized tours to each guest group.
My recommended destinations in Kanagawa are Kamakura, a seat of Japan's first Shogunate, and Hakone, a popular resort area with mountains and Lake Ashi.
In addition to the standard tourist destinations, I can also drive you around some nice places in the suburbs of Tokyo that foreign tourists don't usually visit.
It will be great if you have fun exploring Japan with my little help.
Please feel free to contact me anytime!
I'm looking forward to seeing you soon!
Reviews
Beth K.
Hakone's Best: One-Day Nature and History Car Tour with a Licensed guide
“A+ customer service and attention. ”
Our experience leading up to and enjoying our 6 hour tour with Seigo was great. Starting with our booking inquiry and up to our day together, he was highly responsive via text and phone and very helpful and organized in planning our day. He was also flexible to adjust our itinerary based on the day's timing and weather. We wanted a combination of off-the-beaten-path and classic tourist highlights. Seigo made that work, enabling us to have a nature-immersed, peaceful, crowd-free visit and hike around the remote, active monastery Daiyuzan Temple, as well as scenic drives through gorgeous, lush, and ancient forests, a boat ride on lake Ashinoko, a walk through Pampa grass fields, and a stop at the traditional, authentic Amasake-Chaya tea house. For lunch, he had a table pre-reserved (so no waiting) at a local popular restaurant, Hamazushi, where we enjoyed fresh, delicious sushi, soup, noodles and more, as items were whisked directly to our table by conveyor belt promptly as we ordered them - fun and inexpensive too. Seigo is highly knowledgeable about the history and stories of the land and sites, and we enjoyed learning so much from him (in very good English). He also went the extra mile (probably more like 50 miles) to return a small item we left behind in his car, found well after he had dropped us off. All-together a wonderful day with an excellent guide.
Seigo U.
(4 reviews)I greatly appreciate your words of praise. What made me happiest was that you enjoyed the tour to my hometown of Hakone and Daiyuzan, and the food and atmosphere in the conveyor belt sushi shop, as much as I did. Daiyuzan was out of this world and I feel we got a bit of supernatural power there, right? Both of you are so nice and kind. Thanks to you, I could enjoy the whole day of our tour. I only wish we'd had enough time to complete the area. That's my only regret. I hope you have much more fun in the destinations you will visit from now on and we meet again somewhere in the world. Bon voyage! Seigo
Joan G.
Hakone's Best: One-Day Nature and History Car Tour with a Licensed guide
“Hiking around lovely Hakone”
We had a fabulous day with Seigo. We covered a lot of ground: seeing the volcano vents, hiking around the lake, following the pathway through the mature cedars, and then on to Hakone checkpoint. Seigo’s English is top notch, and he was very pleasant. Our favorite part was hiking along the lake enjoying gorgeous views while learning about the history. It was a great day!
Seigo U.
(4 reviews)I am extremely honored to receive your kind words. It was fantastic going on a tour with you. You walked a lot on the tour. I was amazed at how strong your legs were. Epic! I hope you enjoy the rest of your stay in Japan. Well then, until we meet again!
“Lovely day in Hakone with Seigo”
We had a really lovely day. Seigo made everything easy and was very kind and accommodating with our requests staying even beyond our agreed time. He is very knowledgeable and made our experience in Hakone extra special. Thanks again and see you soon!!!
Seigo U.
(4 reviews)Thank you very much for your wonderful review. I was really happy staying with your family yesterday. I hope you have a lot more fun experiences in Japan. See you soon!
