Need Advice (Hakone & Fuij Q)

[house_md]

Is it better to take Shinjuku-Hakone or Shinjuku-Fuji Q. Will be spending 2 nights in hakone and not sure which place to visit first, hakone round course or fuji q highlands. Any advice will be highly appreciated...

 

[xtwis7]

Assuming you stay all the way till Fuji Q closes, it'll be very by the time you get to Hakone. Not sure how far is it but you may not want to travel to 2 places on the same day.

 

[house_md]

initial plan is to go hakone and do the round course, next day then go to fuji q from hakone. just not sure how long is the travel time from hakone-fuji q and back to hakone where i will be staying..2nd option is to go fuji q from shinjuku and go to hakone for my hotel then next day will be the hakone round course...

 

[galacticnick]

if you do hakone on the first day, you can deposit your luggage at your accommodation before heading off to do the round course, which would take just a few hours, and you have the rest of the day to enjoy your hotel/ryokan stay (assuming you set off from shinjuku early in the morning). you wouldn't have the luxury to do either if you went direct to fujikyu highland from shinjuku.

so, i would do shinjuku-hakone-fujikyu highland-hakone-shinjuku(?) if i were you.

 

[house_md]

will be taking the early train shinjuku-hakone (1st option). this option seems to better, thanks for the inputs. anyway, any idea what is the last bus timing from fuji q back to hakone?

 

[EmPtYsOuLz]

FujiQ is notorious for its long queue (at least from what i read online), if you can't get express passes be prepared to queue 1-2 hours for each ride
And the only way to get the limited-circulation express passes is to buy them shortly after the park opens

My personal 1.5 days trip out of tokyo in Dec is as such

Day 1
Shinjuku -> Hakone (Morning to afternoon)
Hakone -> Kawaguchiko (Stay in Kawaguchiko)

Day 2
Checkout -> Kawaguchiko (camp 0.5 hours before opening)
I will be buying express passes for the big 3 rides (i will queue for the first big ride) so i can wrap up and head back to Tokyo by 1pm

 

[house_md]

will try to reach fuji q as early as i can, depending on what time is the first bus from hakone-fuji q