Day 5 & 6 (Saturday & Sunday)
Two days in one entry, i'm not late anymore \o/
It was a "small" day, as in the morning we just went to do some shopping for the house, and then returned to do laundry. In the afternoon, we went to the Edo Museum in Fukagawa. Not only was it very cheap, it was also extremely fun, as it's the life-sized reproduction of a city district during the Edo era. You wander in the streets, to the sound of a BGM reproducing the sounds of a town:
The best part is that when you remove your shoes, you can enter in all the houses/shops, and "play" with the furnitures/accessories, or just pretend you live there. It felt like being in one of those RPGs, where you're in a city and your character enters in random people's homes and rummages through their cupboards to find money/items XDDD
When we got out it was already around 6pm (it's not so big, but when we were almost done, a guy working there came and took us around to point at all the tiny details hidden in the town - we had missed most of them, on our tour by ourselves XDDD), so we went to have a hot drink at the Meiji Chocolate Café, which is... full of chocolates XD
You can buy like 56 different sort of chocolate. I got one of their Xmas special for SM - cause there are snowmen on the package XD
On the opposite, Sunday was a BIG day XD
We spent the day in Hakone, roughly two hours from Tokyo. Basically, we went:
Shinjuku to Odawara: 90mn train
Odawara to Hakone-Yumoto: 15mn train
Hakone-Yumoto to Gora: 40mn on a slooow train
Gora to Sounzan: cable car
Sounzan to Owakudani to Lake Ashi: ropeway
Lake Ashi to Hakone-machi: boat
Hakone-machi to Odawara: bus
And then back from Odawara to Shinjuku the same way as the first time...
During the train trip to Odawara, Fuji San appeared:
Maron pie in Hakone-Yumoto, cause we were hungry:
Not too far from Gora's station was Gora Park, and the entry fee was covered by the transportation pass, so there was no reason to not go:
We later returned to the station to continue the trip to the top of the mountain, with the cable car, and the ropeway.
It was my first time for both (I'd never been to the mountain before), and i insanely enjoyed the ropeway.
And there it is, Owakudani, the land of eggs boiled in natural sulphur pools, making them black. Yeah, because we're M, we decided to go buy ours at the spot higher in the mountain XD
Ten minutes of steep stairs, at an altitude of +1000m. Needless to say, i wasn't very proud once at the top XDDD
A guy cooking the eggs:
The taste doesn't really change, but it's funny. And eating them with such a view is amazing - if you're not bothered by smell of sulphur.
We continued to Lake Ashi, which we crossed on a boat, before heading back home
