Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan｜Garden Railway Cafe

It is located in a quiet villa area in Hakone Sengokuhara. There are model railroad tracks all over the garden, and I think both adults and children will be excited! The pizza baked in a charcoal oven was also very delicious. If you are going by bus, take the Odakyu Hakone Highway Bus from Busta Shinjuku and it is a 10-minute walk from the Kintoki Tozanguchi bus stop.

It was a wonderful place where you could admire a model train up close while eating fresh pizza baked in a pizza oven. The owner is also very kind and it's a shop you'll want to stay at forever. Children who love trains were fascinated by it.

After enjoying the winding winds of Hakone, we arrived at this stylish cafe. You can really relax while eating pizza, coffee, and cake while listening to bossa nova-style jazz and enjoying the flames of the wood-burning stove. The dioramas on display were not up to par, and when I asked her, her husband's main job was making models. I lost track of time while smelling the wood smoke from the pizza oven. Afterwards, when I was talking with my wife about various things, I realized that her husband was a man of incredible ability. He appeared on a 2-hour program on BS Japan in 2008 and created a diorama of Hallstatt, a world heritage site in Austria. I vividly remember watching that program at the time and being moved by it, and I couldn't believe it! I was surprised to find out that the owner of this cafe is that person! My wife showed me the recorded program from that time on DVD! Thank you very much ^_^ If the weather is bad, they may be closed because they can't run the model trains, so it's best to call before coming. postscript Small World, which will open in Ariake on April 25, 2020, is 7,000 square meters in size, and the master is said to be working hard on the production. I'm really looking forward to this opening! postscript I visited again on Sunday, September 28, 2020, but unfortunately it was closed. I had heard that they may be closed on rainy days, even on Sundays, so I regret that I should have called in advance. I haven't been to the small world of Ariake created by Master yet, so I'm thinking of going there.