Okada Museum of Art
Hakone is a sightseeing destination for art. The Hakone Open-Air Museum, the Pola Museum of Art, and others cluster here, but the “Okada Museum of Art,” near Kowakien, is a large and comfortable museum where you can take your time and view the works at a leisurely pace.
Foot Bath Café
Beside the Okada Museum of Art building, a foot bath awaits.
It is a facility so thoughtfully designed that steps were even added to position visitors at just the right height, letting them gaze comfortably and leisurely at a work that reproduces Sotatsu Tawaraya’s masterpiece “Wind God and Thunder God screens” on a colossal scale of 12 meters high and 30 meters wide, right before their eyes.
If you pay the Okada Museum of Art’s admission fee of “2800 yen,” the foot bath is free. If you use only the foot bath, you can enter for 500 yen. When this writer went in, a single amateur runner was there soothing his fatigue.
Foot Bath Café
Being a “Foot Bath Café,” this foot bath spot itself becomes a café. In other words, you can place your order while soaking in the foot bath.
Look closely at the menu and you’ll even find draft beer (800 yen). Because the foot bath water is hot, something cold tastes all the more delicious.
It was built with partitions so that each block can be used by 2–3 people.
A staff member who takes orders is stationed at the entrance to the right of the foot bath, but you can also order while soaking in the foot bath (if staff are around).
Foot Bath Café (Café / Kowakidani Station, Chokoku-no-Mori Station)
Lunch overall rating★★★☆☆ 3.1
