Our stay at Hakone was lovely. We engaged a tour guide from www.toursbylocal.com again and we had an elderly man Hide-San bring us around Hakone. Hide-san is a learned and well travelled man who was a business man in his earlier days. His work brought him to many places [including Dubai, Singapore]. After he retired, he decided to put his multi cultural experience into good use as well as meet people and signed up as a tour guide. He was a joy to talk to and like Auntie Kaoru, it was kinda like having a Japanese friend bring you around.
We spent a day travelling in his car and heading to beautiful spots, had lunch at a soba and ramen joint famous with locals, Hakone Gateway, a wood mosaic workshop and he was so accommodating to bring me to search for the famous chimoto at Hakone even though we have exceeded our allocated time with him.
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