Odakyu Hotel de Yama, on the shores of Lake Ashi, is conveniently located just a 15-minute walk from the Narukawa Art Museum and Moto-Hakone Port, home of the Hakone Sightseeing Cruise. (Shuttle bus service available.) The hotel’s garden, covering 36.7 acres (148,800 square meters), offers panoramic vistas of Lake Ashi and Mount Fuji. Together with the season’s fresh greenery, the garden’s 3,000 azaleas bloom in a profusion of color and its rhododendrons are an added attraction. Visitors will come away with lasting impressions of the bright colors of nature on display.