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Hakone 8 hours Scenic and Culture tour from Hakone Yumoto

Art, Culture, & Historical
Hakone Tour Guide - Kashima H.

Joined 2017

Kashima H.
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This tour includes several essential sights such as scenic and modern culture spots, exciting riding experience and healing spots. You will be impressed with the magnificent natural landmark and mysterious power of the nature. I will help you to make interesting experience which include not only the common stories from standard books but also the unbiased stories.

Itinerary

This itinerary can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Send me a message with your requests!

09:00 AM

Meeting Point

To meet with you at Hakone Yumoto station,

- At the lobby of your staying hotel in Tokyo

09:50 AM

To move to Chokokunomori station by Hakone Tozan railway.

To move to Chokokunomori station by Hakone Tozan railway.

10:40 AM

Open air museum,

This museum exhibits mainly field sculpture. The museum site is very wide with lots of green trees and many arts of world famous sculpture masters such as Rodin, Bourdelle, Milo, Moore and so-on are exhibited with around 100 pieces.

12:20 PM

Lunch near open air museum,

Lunch near open air museum,

01:30 PM

Enjoy riding of rope-way into Hakone mountain

Enjoyment of riding

To enjoy Hakone Tozan Railway ,Hakone cable car, ropeway and sightseeing boat (cruise) in Ashinoko-lake. During these riding, you can enjoy the sightseeing of beautiful scenic and Mt.Fuji if weather is fine.

(Hakone Tozan Railway):

This Ride connect from Odawara to Gora as mountain railway and has started to open in 1919.

Hakone railway path, the length of each vehicle is designed as short length

so that the vehicle can be run safely. Between Hakone-Yumoto and Kowakudani stations, the steep is 80/1000 gradient which is the steepest in Japan for an adhesion railway.

Switchback: The railway climb the steep inclined rail by a switchback zig-zag way, changing the direction

back and forth.


(Hakone Cable Car):

This car travel approximately 1.2km to connect Gora and Souzan stations in 10 minutes. The difference in elevation is 209 meters. The vehicle of the Cable Car is consisting of two units and the floor inside the vehicle is formed as stepwise to fit the slope of the railway.


(Hakone Ropeway):

You can enjoy the views during a 30 minutes ride across 4 kilometers between Sounzan and Togendai stations, including Owakudani volcanic valley where sulfurous fumes gushing out of cracks in the earth which make hot spring, Lake Ashi and Mt.Fuji (if whether is fine).

03:00 PM

To take Pirate cruise on Lake-Asi to Moto-Hakone,

This Cruise operates between Hakonemachi, Moto-Hakone and Togendai on Lake Ashi. You can enjoy beautiful scenery such as green mountains surrounded by sky and lake, wave splash near the Cruise and Mt.Fuji if whether is fine with breathing clear air.

04:00 PM

Narukawa Art Forum

This museum is located near Ashinoko-lake in Hakone. The works in the exhibits are replaced several times a year and you can enjoy some fresh works every time you come here.

Because this musem is located at a little upper side hill from the best area of Hakone/Ashinoko-lake, you can see the best scenic spots in Hakone that overlooks both Mt.Fuji (If whether is fine), green moutains and Ashinoko-lale being pleasure cruise at the lake.

05:00 PM

To move to Hakone-Yumoto station by Hakone Tozan bus,

To move to Hakone-Yumoto station by Hakone Tozan bus,

Ending Point

Hakone-Yumoto station

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Inclusions & Exclusions

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What‘s included

Guide fee (8hours),

Transportation fee for a guide to pick up guests at Hakone Yumoto station,

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What‘s not included

Hakone free pass ticket for you and a guide: JPY5000/adult,

Entrance fee for you: Hakone open air museum: JPY1600/ adult,

Narukawa museum: JPY1300/ adult,

Lunch fee,

Tour Important Information

1) For fairly long walking of sight-seeing, please put on the shoes to walk with ease.

2) Please prepare the cash to spend any train riding, lunch and souvenir.

3) I prepared the blog of Hakone related items with photos and detail explanation each shown as below,

Blog title: (1) Ashinoko-Lake How this lake was appeared and Various Hakone Sight Spots

(2) Various Rides in Hakone

(3) Hakone Shrine Power Spot to Encourage People

(4) Modern Japanese-style Painting by Natural Mineral Pigments

(5) Natural Mineral Pigments used for Modern Japanese-style Painting

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I am now focusing tour guide area for East Japan area such as Tokyo, Yokohama, Hakone, Kamakura, Mt.Fuji, Nikko, Gunma, Saitama and Kanazawa.

However, I can support you for one day trip of Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, Nara and Himeji from Tokyo.

Cancellation Policy

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Hakone Tour Guide - Kashima H.

Joined 2017

Kashima H.
4.68 / 5
(78 reviews)
Identity Verified
Interview-Based Quality Checks

About Tour Guide Kashima H.

I am Kashima. I have gained the Government Licensed Tour Guide authorization in 2017/2.

I passed a licensing examination of Kyoto Tourism Culture Certification Test 3rd grade in 2023.

I passed a licensing examination of Tokyo city guide in 2023.


I had worked for one of biggest Electric Company in the world which manufacture various type of Electrical products. I had a task roll of design development of Semiconductor for Video movie appliance in Japan and semiconductor marketing for 5 years in USA. Secondly, I had worked for one of big grovel Electric part Company which manufacture connectors for Electrical appliance usage. I had a task roll of quality assurance cooperating with the grovel college including USA, Europe (Ireland, Germany, France), China and Eastern Asia. As a result, I have communicated with people from different countries and I have become interested in introducing Japan to them. That is why I made decision to become an English tour guide.

<Primary Itinerary>

By introducing Japan to non-Japanese tourists, I would like to do my best to serve the best customized private tours in Japan that you and your family are looking forward to enjoying the fantastic experience as below.

1) Sightseeing of natural scenic spots, historical landmark (Temples, Shrines, Palace, Gardens) and cultural assets (Paintings, sculptures, swords and so-on)

2) Strolling of the bustling streets & towns

3) Traditional town atmosphere experience

4) Japanese Modern Architecture in both Tokyo,

5) Experience of Traditional performing arts & events enjoyment such as Kabuki, Sumo-training, tea ceremony and Ninjya training

6) Famous relaxation spots enjoyment such as Onsen and Japanese bar

7) Crafts art of Japan experience such as Sake brewery and Bonsai museums

8) Enjoyment for kids such as Amusement facility (Anime, Games, Comics), shopping of latest trendy goods, entertainment café and so-on.

9) Night-time foods and drinking enjoyment in Food market & Drinking streets


Reviews

Very knowledgeable and friend guide

Kashima San is very farm and have a good sense of humor. He made us feel very comfortable and we enjoyed our trip very much. Best wishes to him and his family.

Very friendly

Kashima San was well prepared and gave our group a lot of insights into Japanese culture!

Miriam S.

Miriam san, thank you very much for your upmost review for me. We enjoyed three days Tokyo tour and one day Hakone tour with exchanging communications about various topics. I am very much pleased that your group could enjoy various aspects of Tokyo tour such as Japanese art culture with Japan historical insight, traditional shrines and temple with various historical background, traditional town & market, Japanese style & Western style mixed garden and the most advanced sophisticated town & facility. Also, we could feel the enormous nature and various ridings in Hakone under good weather condition. I hope that you visit Japan again in near future so that I can introduce other nice tour spots in Japan for you. Thanks, Kashima

Fun and educational tour for the entire family

Kashima San is a very friendly and knowledgeable guide. He provided us with all the details of our tour down to the minute and was prompt at replying to my inquiries. We took the bullet train to Kyoto on a beautiful sunny day and saw all the temples and shrines while Kashima San gave us historical facts about what we were looking at. He's a wonderful guide and I would definitely book with him again. 次回まで鹿島さん、さようなら

Lydia A.

Lydia san, thank you very much for your upmost review for me. We visited Kyoto by one day tour from Tokyo with exploring Kyoto Arashiyam area as Tenryuji temple & Bamboo forest and also visited Golden pavilion & Ryoanji temple/Rock garden. I am very much pleased that you could enjoy the Kyoto tour and also the scenery on the Shinkansen we took. I am impressed that your family were very much interested in Japanese culture, building of each area and Japanese life style. Thanks to your strong curiosity for Japan, we could exchange various information and funny 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

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