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Originally Posted by iwantaskyline
I've stayed at that exact one lol. Those pictures made it seem glamorous but like you said it is far from fancy -- gf and I personally found it a bit run down.
Hakone was a miss for me, the stay at the Ryokan was an interesting experience but the lack of things to do and the rather cumbersome travel there made it not worth it.
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They only thing I wasn't crazy about was the shared bathrooms. Luckily for us it was right across from our room so it wasn't a huge deal. I agree the Ryokan was the best part of our Hakone visit.
In my mind if you stay at a Ryokan it should be "rustic" and have some historic cache. I dunno about others but we stayed at a more modern one afterwards in Takayama and it wasn't the same.