Hakone Botanical Garden of Wetlands — Attraction in Hakone

The hakone botanical garden is a delightful place, which recreates the original wetlands of the area. This is not a very exciting place for kids, but if you're interested in nature or just like a nice stroll, the botanical gardens is for you. They have plenty of flowers on display throughout the growing seasons and good chances to see frogs, insects, crayfish, lizards and birds. At the entrance they often have nice displays of bonsai or seasonal flowers available for purchase. There is also possibility to buy drinks and soft cream. In the close vicinity there are plenty of good restaurants making sure you...

We give it 3 stars because we suppose that it "just wasn't for us". We went through the entire garden in about 30-40 minutes and our highlight was this bird, that we've spotted in the midst of the area (there were at least 2 birds, but we only managed to spot one). We expected a more colorful garden, but apparently it was either the wrong time (spring) or it's just a different type of plants that they display. We just hadn't any clou of what we were looking at. With that in mind it still was a nice walk in the gardens surrounded by...

The botanical garden is very nice but not worth it. No actual flowers are growing and for tourists - you can’t really read any of the descriptions. Wouldn’t advise to pay an entry for that.

The COFFEE PLACE of the botanical garden however is AMAZING. Food is great. Music is great. And coffee is delicious. Very different from anything we’ve had in Japan. We had the ham & cheese; avocado and butter & jam sandwiches and they were all veryyyyy good. Open until 4pm but would advise to go for a nice...