Hakone: A new room and keiseki dinner
We returned to Tensui Saryo and got a new, and better, room. We had another Keiseki dinner.
Returning to Tensui Saryo (天翠茶寮) 🗾, we checked in with the front desk, as we had reported an issue in the morning before we left. The issue was that the bathroom in our room had a particularly unpleasant smell, and it wasn’t ours! We discovered this the evening before, and there was little we could do about it then, so we reported it before leaving in the hope that the source could be found and fixed.
Upon our return, the folks at the desk claimed it had been fixed, so we went to our room, only to find it had not. The same smell was present, so we returned to the front desk and asked for another room. They told us this would take some time to arrange, so we went across the street to COFFEE CAMP 🗾 to pass the time.
When we returned, a new room had been arranged, and our stuff was moved there. Unlike the first room, which was completely in the traditional Japanese style, where at night beds are made on futon pillows on the tatami mats, this room was larger and had a Western-style bed. Only our son would sleep on the tatami mat. While not what we had in mind originally, it was preferable to the smell, and the room otherwise presented a nice upgrade.
We took some time to get settled, used the private onsen (which was much nicer than the tiny wooden tub in the previous room), and got ready for dinner. Dinner, again, was a Keiseki dinner. This was now our third such dinner for the trip, and we found all three thoroughly enjoyable. Something different from standard dishes like sushi and ramen.
