Hakone offers not only abundant hot spring but also numerous art museums. Exhibited art includes Japanese ukiyoe prints, paintings, sculptures, European impressionist, traditional crafts, contemporary and more.
If you have seen enough of paintings and sculptures, you may still appreciate Hakone Museum of Art, not necessarily for the indoor exhibits but for the garden Shinsenkyo.
Shinsenkyo, meaning the land of the divine and immortal, is a constellation of several landscape gardens and traditional architectures. Though the architectures are not open to public, you can stroll along the paths throughout the gardens.
After walking through the rock garden, you will come to the moss garden. The ground is covered with 130 different kinds of moss (though it is hard to tell one from another!) With over 200 maple trees, the garden presents a beautiful scenery of fresh green in spring, and colored leaves in autumn.
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