Minami Alps Igawa Auto Camping Area
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My longest blog in ths trip so far
... 2-3 hrs there to use there beautiful ladies only rest area (no additional charge). The restaurant looks nice too, not sure about the taste. The spa area, ladies only, looks very professional, however the price seems to be higher than the Canadians' hotel spa. I do recommend this onzen. BTW, no pictures were taken, except at the entrance of the building.
Had a burger with onion at the Fuji train station while waiting for our train, MOS Burger, it was ...
Mt Fuji Trip Report
... the whip. He said he did about 4 tours a week to the top. He also said that there was a competition for the fastest climb and last to win was a New Zealander in 2:50hrs. Ridiculous considering we did it in 7 hours over two days! The first day was the toughest, we did 5 hours of climbing after a bus ride to the 5th station (of 8). This is most of the way up Mt Fuji, with 500 vertical metres to go I think. It was a fairly ...
Higher than mountains....
... too and people were getting fidgety. But....what's that in the distance, with men in uniforms and battons to direct traffic??! It was Tadeshi! He had hiked to the 5th station, raised hell, and returned to rescue the bus! The man the legend. He hopped back on the bus and we were waved on, overtaking all the vehicles to make our way to the 5th station. We finally got off at the 5th station but literally only had 20mins or so to run round and look because we were so ...
Tackling Mt Fuji
... cash. I also didn’t want to look like a total cheap skate in front of the other trekkers. I came up with a plan.
Inside my purse were a range of shiny one yen coins. "Perfect" I thought, grinning slyly. You see the maintenance donation was based entirely on a system of trust. One that could very much be abused by devious gaijin lacking sufficient moral fibre.
I left my toilet cubicle and approached the donation box, letting the other travelers ...
Our lady Mt. Fuji
... mountain once we got to the fifth station. Parking at the fifth station was a nightmare. I think there are fewer cars at Disney. The guide told us that during the official climbing period (now till sept) there are 300,000 climbers who reach the summit! Although it was raining and we were in a cloud, we still could see up the mountain quite a ways, not to the top but still pretty high. Looking down, we could see maybe ten trees and then just white. We took ...
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