I have spent years living in New York, Paris, Los Angeles. I have traveled all over the world and seen countless museums and I’m going to have to say that the open air museum in Hakone is probably my favorite museum in the whole world. I can’t believe how underrated it is! if you have a chance to go to Hakone from Tokyo on a day trip I highly recommend. We took the morning train from Shinjuku on the romance car . It was about an hour and a half ride. We did a one hour soak first at an onsen then drank some hot sake, then we took the little magical train that runs through Hakone mountains up to the open air museum. By the way, this is also a wonderful museum if you have kids. The whole museum is just laid out so beautifully into the side of the mountain winding paths, bridges and streams with sculptures in the streams a very impressive large stained glass tower that is absolutely a jaw dropping and a super cool interactive climbing structure/sculpture for kids to get crazy on.
by LastWordBMine