Good sleeps, much needed! The phone went at 8am which lurched us awake, why hadn’t we turned up for our breakfast? Minor crossing of wires, back to sleep for Trix, I wrote my journal on the balcony and had some coffee.

Interesting breakfast, I’d guessed Trix would prefer the western style one but hadn’t anticipated it would also be lost in translation. Octopus wasn’t really what she needed, and she was very suspicious of the pink centred sausages. I was very happy with my grilled fish, rice, and pork stew, perhaps we’ll swap tomorrow.

Fun day out though, funicular railway, cable car (weird with no snow), pirate ship over a volcanic lake, and a gentle walk through a very green 400 year old cedar forest.

We (Trix) figured out which bus we had to get to get our way back, and 20 minutes later, around 1pm, we luckily found a 7-Eleven 😂 Equally handily there was a pub just around the corner, with lots of lovely IPAs and bags of nuts.

Short walk (not even wobbling) to the outdoor modern art gallery, which was way better than expected. Drizzle didn’t detract from the Henry Moore sculptures, worth coming to Hakone just for them.

Hotel, onsen (Trix braved the public one only to be sent away for wearing a swimming costume, retreated to our own one until she nearly fainted from the heat), then chill in the bar, then food!

Another 7 course meal, incredible again and this time Trix was there for all of it (even if she raised an eyebrow to my enthusiastic adding of the wine pairing).

Did our usual walk afterwards, back to the room to pack, bed now, breakfast at 7:15, Osaka tomorrow.