Guide

Soak up some local culture and atmosphere by visiting these nearby attractions, famous meseums, histric sites and nature destinations.



Suwa Shrine

Tel 0460-84-8301 (Hakone Sengokuhara Tourist Association)
Recommend On March 27th each year, a traditional Lion Dance is performed. There is also Blessing ceremony with hot water, in which boiling water is splashed on the head of visitors with bamboo leaves. It is meant to protect them from being sick in the following year.

100 Sengokuhara, Hakone-machi, Ashigarashita-gun, Kanagawa
Tel 0460-84-8526
Recommend Taste its popular Yutate manju, which has an outside skin cake made with black sugar, and Kintoki?yama manju with a thin outside and tsubu an, a chunky azuki bean filling. \120 per each.

230 Sengokuhara, Hakone-machi, Ashigarashita-gun, Kanagawa

Kounan Shigure Chaya

Tel 0460-84-5500
Recommend Japanese confectionaries at this tea house are made from high?quality ingredients like Azuki beans from Hokkaido, and black sugar from Kagoshima. With its refined and chic atmosphere, it is very popular among women travelors. You can purchase some dango and other Japanese sweets for a souvenir.

189 Sengokuhara, Hakone-machi, Ashigarashita-gun, Kanagawa

Nishimaru

Tel 0460-84-8177
Recommend Nishimaru has a collection of Samurai armors, ranging in date from the Muromachi period to the Edo period. It also displays numerous Ukiyoe, including Bijinga and Shunga. Visitors can rest at its tea house.

817-580 Sengokuhara, Hakone-machi, Ashigarashita-gun, Kanagawa

Shissei Chaya

Tel 0460-84-9588
Recommend This souvenir shop is located in the parking lot of Hakone Shissei Kaen (Hakone Botanical Garden of Wetlands). It has a variety of souvenir products like Japanese pickles and manjyu, and offers some food items: An-mitsu \400, Amazake \300 (except summer months), and curry rice for \700.

817 Sengokuhara, Hakone-machi, Ashigarashita-gun, Kanagawa
Tel 0460-84-7293
Recommend In this botanical garden, you will find approximately 1700 kinds of wetland plants and wild flowers from various wetlands in Japan, as well as some unusual foreign plants. Its walkway guides visitors from the lowland to the highland, and help them explore details of this extraordinary garden.

817 Sengokuhara, Hakone-machi, Ashigarashita-gun, Kanagawa