It's famous for the black egg as Hakone is volcanic area producing a lot of sulphur. These black eggs are actually normal egg boiled in the water that contains iron and sulphur thus it changes the colour of the egg shell but it doesn't affect the inside and taste.
We took romance train from Shinjuku to Hakone station, then continue with pirate ship cruise for half an hour, after that we had quick omu rice for lunch before continuing our journey using ropeway.
Finally we arrived at Owakudani where we found these black eggs, after that we continued our journey riding car ropeway and returned back to Shinjuku with rapid train.
Midterm holiday is coming and the grandparents are in town so we decided to have a short gateway to Desaru, JB.
We stayed at Four Points Hotel for 3 days 2 nights. The room is pretty spacious but the hotel's facilities quite minimal at least they have gym and swimming pool.
The location is pretty strategic, it's next to the mall and restaurant / cafe.
On the first day, we spent time to swim in the hotel and had dinner at Seafood bujang restaurant firefly.
The seafood apparently is not fresh and over price, however we liked the way it cooked which was Thai inspired cuisine.
On the second day, we exercised together at the gym and had hearty breakfast.
At first, we planned to go to Desaru fruit farm and ostrich farm, unfortunately it's raining the whole day, thus we changed the plan to visit the nearby mall and the mall in the city. We had lunch at Sushi house, the food was delicious and the price is only 1/3 of SG price which is very good deal.
After doing window shopping at the mall, we had seafood dinner at Honbin restaurant. We ordered different type of seafood from crab, squid, fish and the seafood was fresh and yummy. Everyone loved it.
On the third day, we had an opportunity to visit Desaru fruit farm and orchid farm as the weather was bright and sunny.
It's back nature experience for the kids and us. We gained knowledge of different kind of fruits, how they grow and nurtured in the farm and tasted and smelled different kinds of leaves.
And the kids had the opportunity to feed and have interaction with the pet animals.
After the fruit tour, we had the chance to taste the fruit harvest which were sweet and fresh and end up we bought different kinds of fresh fruits there.
In the afternoon, we travelled to ostrich farm to taste the egg and the meat and feed the ostrich and had interaction with them.
As we still have plenty of time before going back to Singapore, we went to Desaru coast at Westin resort.
The beach was superb, the wave was so calm, the sand was soft and the water was clear. We really wanted to dip there, however we already packed our clothes and luggage thus we just dip our feet only.
After sunset, we went back to Singapore and thanks God for the good traffic. It's smooth and the total time spent was 1.5 hours.
