Day 4: Fuji-Hakone National Park

Started out this day at Fuji-Hakone National Park by heading to lake Ashino-ko with a ferry ride starting at Hakone-Machi, stopping at Moto-Hakone and stopping at the Togendai dock to continue on a ropeway ride through the Owakudani  valley.

The ferry ride carried a good dose of tourist kitsch with the ferry fashioned as a pirate ship complete with pirate-clad personnel.

At the Owakudani stop, there were sulfur hot springs bubbling up along the hillside.  The sulfur was quite pungent and hard-boiled are sold to tourists which have been cooked in the springs.  The sulfur springs actually turns the eggs' shells black although the eggs themselves taste the same.