What do you picture when you think of a Japanese inn near a popular hot spring? Perhaps a ryokan with tatami mats on the floor and sliding door panels made of rice paper stretched taut across black wood frames? Sure, I would have loved to stay at one of those during our family trip back in April 2012. But with my rambunctious kids, I knew that we were one "Look at me. I'm a Samurai" game away from coughing up a ton of money to pay for ripped mats and torn door panels.
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| The Flower Palace at the Fujiya Hotel |
Instead, we finished off our day visting
Mount Fuji and
Hakone National Park by spending the night at the Fujiya Hotel.
Frommer's Travel Guide describes it as
"quite simply the grandest, most majestic old hotel in Hakone; indeed, it might be the loveliest historic hotel in Japan."
