Hakone Is Five Different Places — Choose Your Ryokan by What You Actually Want to Do
Most visitors rush the Hakone loop in a day from Tokyo and see a fraction of it. Hakone is not one destination but five areas strung along a slow transport circuit, and where you sleep decides what you get to do. Here is each area, the ryokan worth booking in it, and how a ryokan night actually works.
6 picks · Updated 2026-08-30