Dan Is Awesome

Today’s weather was still crap, but it turned out okay. We left at 8am to head to Mt. Fuji and then some other lesser mountain. The drive to Mt. Fuji took us through rural Tokyo, which was a very different experience from rural South Korea. The towns seemed much more like neighborhoods than patches of high-rise apartment buildings, and everything seemed to have a hint more green to it.

Mt. Fuji took about 2 hours to get to, and we didn’t even see the mountain until we were half way up it due to heavy clouds. The upper portion of the mountain was closed still due to snow, our guide said that only in July, September and August can one climb to the peak. This sparked an idea to come back for a 2-day hike to the peak of Mt. Fuji immediately following our departure from South Korea. We shall see.

Our last stop of the day was a short ferry ride on some lake and then a cable-car ride up to the top of a lesser mountain. On a clear day, Mt. Fuji looms over the ride up and the mountain once there, providing a breathtaking scene. Here’s what we saw instead.

That’s Mt. Fuji you see in the distance, from inside a cold front. Photographic opportunities don’t get much rarer than that.

Tomorrow we’re touring around Tokyo itself, then wandering around to random stuff. I have a ton more pictures to upload, but using this tiny, stupid laptop makes me want to destroy it.