Hakone, Miyanoshita, Mt. Fuji, along the Tokaido

“Hakone nestles in a wooded valley at some distance from the line of a curving lake coast. Our arrival was gratifying to its inhabitants; they seemed to take it as a delicate compliment to their picturesque village, a thoughtful attention which brought much happiness to every face. The children, too, made much of us.”

Gilbert Watson, Three Rolling Stones in Japan, (London, 1904) p. 165