Fuji Station Hotel

... weird, but once you crack them they just look a regular old hard boiled egg. They give you some salt but no pepper!
After that we took a cruise on Lake Ashi which is a lake made by a volcanic eruption thousands of years ago. It was a little rough on the lake due to a windy day so we rode in the enlosed part of the boat.
Lunch was at a local restaurant and we tried some interesting foods ...

So yea! To summarize:
Walked about 10.2km downhill (which isn't so easy on rocky surface n stuff) from Station 5 of Mount Fuji to the bottom. Took about 5/6 hours but YAY! I used my hiking boots again (count so far: 3 times!) and it didn't feel too bad so I'm pretty glad, good chance to work off all the pocky!

Stayed in an epic Hotel Ohike which not ...

... swoista gwarancja wierności podwładnych Szoguna. Stary checkpoint pokazuje jak przeprowadzana była kontrola i co robiono z osobami nielegalnie przekraczającymi granice.

Na drugą część doliny popłynęliśmy trochę kiczowatym „pirackim" statkiem. Z jeziora Ashi można podziwiać widok otaczających gór i powoli czuć mało przyjemną woń Owaku-dani czyli „doliny wielkiego wrzenia ...

... en un punto donde se celebraba el Herbal Festival o Festival de las Hierbas, donde principalmente habian plantado lavanda. Tambien habia otras flores de todos los colores - cuyo nombre no conozco, ordenadas en triangulos de tierra enormes, formando figuras . El festival parecia muy popular. Llegaban autobuses cada poco rato, cargados con mas turistas japoneses, todos con su gorrito para protegerse del sol. El siguiente autobus nos llevo al ...

Five million hours and as many trains later, we finally arrived at dusk in the beautiful Hakone National Park (the site of Mount Fuji) where after taking in the breathtaking scenery we caught the local bus up the steep road to our guesthouse. Following the ‘no shoes inside’ rule, we were proudly given our guesthouse slippers, and shown our room: a traditional Japanese ryokan (beds = Tatami mats on the floor with a futon on top, surprisingly comfortable) with ...

... marche dans la ville. Un jeune Japonnais voulait socialiser avec nous. Nous etions conciliant jusqu'a ce qui nous demande de vouloir l'ecouter sur sa religion. Disons que nous avons eu vite l'idee d'aller faire les bagages. Donc on a pris le train encore une fois pour quelques heures en direction du Mt. Fuji. Une autre essais du "bullet train" (cher mais pas le choix avec la distance a faire) pour 2 heures. Puis un autre train 10 min. Un autre pour 40 ...

... feel getting chill, I became worried of getting pneumonia (Luckily, we did not catch any afterall). All of us were drenched and felt so miserable when we arrived back to the 5th station.

Later at home:
There were many thunder struck near the house through the middle of night, we jumped out of our futons and were awake. It was very loud and scary. (Fortunately, we did not came across any earthquake during our stay)

... fast. It is windy and bitterly cold at the top. Up until this point, I was wearing shorts and a shell over my t-shirts. I was perfectly warm as long as I had kept moving, but as we waited for sunrise the cold sunk in. For nearly two hours we sat there huddled together shivering violently. My fingers were numb from the cold and nothing I did seemed to help. At one point I went and hung out in the entrance of the bathroom for 30 minutes just so I could avoid ...

Fiona's school celebrates their annual festival and sports day. Cultural clubs display their work and sports clubs sell matsuri food. Fiona's English club performed a mesmerizing version of Snow White this year. Fiona herself dressed up in yukata and participated in the third-year's traditional dance called Minyo. For Sports Day, students were divided into two teams (red and white for the colours of Japan), and participated in various competitive activities ...

... cycled around the lake - it was our own little lake district but with Mnt Fuji looking over us! Not a very ...