Odakyu Dentetsu Shinjuku Station

We took the romance car going back to shinjuku to save ourselves multiple transfers since our hotel is in shinjuku. The suppose to be relaxing train ride back home was just the opposite. There was a kid behind us who did not shut up. I’m sorry but we had a long day and a talkative kid is not what we wanted to listen to, the whole train ride home. We asked to be moved but they wouldn’t. It’s weird because the train was not full at all!
Also, it was unusually hot the day we went to hakone and train did not have their AC turned on at all.
I wish we took the regular way home. I’m sure it would’ve been better than this– plus, we didn’t have to pay extra.

We bought the Hakone Free Pass, paid for a reserved seat, and took the Odakyu Romance Car from Shinjuku to Hakone-​Yumoto. It was a smooth ride. The train was clean and comfortable and it took only about 1.5 to 1.75 hours to get there. It’s probably the most direct route to Hakone from Tokyo.

The level of sophistication of a society is usually represented by it’s language, food, customs, infrastructure, and their interactions with each other.
In that regard Japan is a very complex and intricate society: One look at Shinjuku Train Station is all you need to know that these folks mean business.
Complex might be an over simplification as this train station is so large with so many levels and so many shops it could easily take a foreigner a month of practice to master where to catch each train line… where did I buy that green tea Ice cream (I never did find it again… sigh).
Once you get over the hump and fear of this beast it actually is quite nice (although I still got lost plenty), The J R Yamanote line is a wonderful way to see most of Tokyo. This line is a circular track that goes through many prefectures… I liked Shibuya, Harrajuku, and Shinagawa to get off on.

This serves different-​type train service in comparison to Yamanote line or something else.
All this is very calm and you can feel relaxed in the train.
This is because of Romance Car, which is bound for Hakone and very comfortable like expresses.
I really like this atmosphere!
The station itself is very clean, while Shinjuku station of Yamanote line is very very dirty.
So it doesn’t take much to like this.
I heard that there are some different types of Romance Car.
So those who like trains want to get on all of them.
But I don’t get it at all…