Rakuten STAY TERRACE Hakone Kowakudani

Loved the main foyer, so relaxing. The private onsen was great along with the welcome snacks and drinks

This is a great hotel with private onsen in each room. It’s right off the Chokokunomori station at the switch back on the road. A 5 minute walk. It is self check-in and was very spacious. Booked last minute and got a great deal!

Loved this place. It had all the amenities you could ask for and it was super clean. We really enjoyed the hot spring foot bath on the porch. Only issue I had was that our tour we were on before reaching here finished early, so we got to the property 2 hours before check in time. You couldn't access the common area to wait for check in nor were there any benches outside, so we ended up sitting on the ground under the hot sun - would have been nice if they had had a small shaded area with bench outside that we could have waited in.

We truly had an excellent stay. The room was cozy, the amenities were very good, and the onsen and terrace were great too. The instructions for everything were very clear. The only thing to note is that we didn't realize when booking that there was no front desk, so we couldn't drop off our luggage before receiving the access codes. If we had known this, we would have planned our arrival time differently; as it was, we had to leave our bags at a station. By the way, the open-air museum has lockers—it would have been useful to know that.