Rakuten STAY has grandly opened “Rakuten STAY TERRACE Hakone Kowakudani” on November 1st.
The facility is a four-story building. It has 22 rooms, each equipped with a natural hot spring footbath, a terrace where guests can enjoy barbecues, a semi-open-air bath flowing directly from a natural hot spring, a sauna, and a kitchen with appliances and cooking utensils. The first floor and top floor suites also have cold baths and open-air baths. The suite on the first floor offers an adjustable Paramount bed electric bed and a room exclusively for enjoying stone spa treatments for up to two people. Additionally, all five rooms on the first floor are dog-friendly, capable of accommodating up to two dogs of any size, and equipped with cages, pet beds, food bowls, pet sheets, trash bins, and etiquette bags.
For meals, guests can choose between Japanese and Western breakfast options. Dinner offerings include a “uni shabu” dish featuring red snapper and barley-fed pork from Shizuoka Prefecture in a broth made from sea urchin and a barbeque set that allows guests to savor Japanese beef “Kainomi”. Additionally, a plan is available that includes a French course dinner prepared by a visiting chef, exclusively for guests staying in a suite on the first floor. Prices start from 46,000 yen (including taxes and service charges).
Access to the hotel is approximately 30 minutes by car from the Gotemba Interchange (IC) on the Tomei Expressway, about a 5-minute walk from Kowakudani Station on the Hakone Tozan Railway, and roughly 2 minutes on foot from Jakotsuno via the Hakone Tozan Bus and the Izu Hakone Bus.
