Day 7: Travel to Hakone

We left the hotel in Hiroshima pretty early and started heading out to Hakone. It was a long journey but totally worth it - 1.5 hr bullet to Osaka, 2 hr bullet to Odawara, little train to Hakone, a switch-back train to Gora, and a cable car up the mountain even more to Sou-un-zan.

During this time, we got to eat a bunch of "ekiben" which is "station lunch" which is just a lot of yummy food you can buy at the train stations and eat on the trains. We got Uncle Rikuro's jiggly cheesecake, Horai 551's steamed pork buns, maple manju, and really pretty bento boxes (I will post ALL of these pics with our whole trip meals on a separate album).

The switch-back rains were really awesome, going through some rural areas with pretty trees and rustic tunnels. The last cable car we went on was just a straight path, but had a pretty steep incline up the mountain.Læs mere