HAKONE
A day's trip to Hakone with hopes of seeing the elusive Mount Fuji.... Alas... No such luck!
We first visited the Hakone Open air Museum. A delightful place, well planned, and a rich collection.
Picasso Pavilion
Sculptures in open air
Emile-Antoine Bourdelle - Left: Grande Statue de la Victoire, La Liberté, La Force de la Volonté and L'Eloquance [details below] Right: Grande Héraclès Archer
Grande Striptease by Giacomo Manzù [above] and Group in front of the Sea by Francisco Zúñiga [below]
Dedicated to the Aegean Sea by Yoshi Kinouchi (note the Mediterranean hips and figure)[left, above] - Rodin's Honoré de Balzac [right, above] - and last but not least Sir Henry Moore's Reclining Figure: Arch Leg.
The sunny morning turned all cloudy when we took a ride up a cable car [called The Ropeway] to Mount Hakone. It has last erupted 3,000 years ago. Today it is a volcanic valley/mountain with active sulfur vents and hot springs. And the pungent sulfur smell always strong in the air.
Lake Ashi - our last event of the day was a boat ride on the lake.
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