Tuesday, May 30, 2006
How To Hide A Volcano
Since the weather wasn't great when we arrived in Japan we decided to leave Mount Fuji until the end in the hope that things would improve. So having made our way back to Tokyo we had a couple of days to choose from in which to do it as a day trip. Things were looking quite promising as we headed west again on the train, and we started to get really confident when we arrived at Hakone and found fairly clear blue sky. Unfortunately we had underestimated the ability of the mountain to attract large amounts of cloud. So we had a day of almost perfect weather but we saw abolutely nothing of Mount Fuji. It's an extremely easy day trip from Tokyo and it looks like it's made by millions of people each year, so there were occasions where we were just following the crowd. The route involves taking a train, a couple of cable cars (from which you might see the mountain), and then a boat trip across a lake on a very cheesy looking fake pirate ship (Why?!). So no arty photos of Mount Fuji, but some great ones of the pirate ships!!
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