Let me start by saying that Ashinoko Ichinoyu is not your typical ryokan. If you are expecting personalized treatment and highly attentive service, this will not be a place for you. However, if you are looking for a nice, relatively inexpensive place to set up base for exploring Hakone, please continue reading... Ashinoko Ichinoyu is small 'budget' ryokan. They have... More

My wife and me were travelling through Hakone with our two kids (15 and 7) and with the onsen/ryokan way of charging per person instead of room, things were looking bleak. Some of the better places would have been 1500-2000 USD/night! Enter Ashinoko Ichinoyu. A smaller budget place that had just what we needed. We wanted to try a typical... More

Despite what the address here says, this hotel is actually in Togendai, not Hakone-machi or Motohakone. (The map is accurate.) It is close to the ropeway and the pier, about 15 minutes walk if you don't take a shortcut through the parking lot of Hotel Hakone Academy, much shorter if you do. However, the hotel is not very visible from... More

this was our second stop on our 14 day japan tour, we stayed here 2 nights in a japanese style room. We got the train from tokyo to odawara and got the bus to togendai, pretty long ride but was nice to see the country side, got very packed. the location is great, 5 mins from the togendai cable car... More

We stayed here for 2 nights during our 8 day trip to Tokyo. Location is convenient, as it is a short ( 10 min ) walk from Togendai cable car and ferry terminal. We arrived in Hakone station by train, took the bus to Togendai which takes 40 minutes. Location is beautiful, quiet, trees. We booked a Japanese room; it... More