Fujiya Hotel Hakone

... about the "black eggs". Supposedly if you eat a black egg which had been cooked in the sulfur springs you will have 7 years added to your life span. So Jeremy and I said that sounded great. The eggs are put into little baskets and dropped into the sulfur springs to boil. Talk about stink - the springs were awful, and the eggs made it worse. Anyway, when they come out the shells are totally black ...

... Fuji &#8211; any photo you have seen does not do it justice. It is amazingly huge.<br><br>The second ropeway went over a sulphide mine &#8211; they call it hell valley &#8211; and the rotten egg smell filled our noses. We bought a black egg, which is an egg cooked in the sulphide water which turns the egg black and gives it a slight smokey (dare we say "*****" smell). Although an acquired taste; local legend says that eating one will ...

So yea! To summarize:<br>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!<br><br>Stayed in an epic Hotel Ohike which not ...

... off. He's intelligent, a EE (Electrical Engineering grad, like me), teaches English to elementary school kids (like I would like to do), has a passion for, and speaks Japanese fluently (thanks, Eric, for teaching me some kanji, and more), and we share a common view on life and belief systems.<br><br>Others included Colleen (Canada), cousins Nik &amp; Graeme (Canada), Chiaki (Korea), Mone (Thailand), Tomomi, Baki, Lisa and another ...

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... sunrise), walked around the stores.<br>6am: Began descending.<br>9 am: Arrived to the 5th station, left immediately. May drove back.<br>10am: Checked out the hotel and went to the &#8220;Jonathan&#8221;, another local family restaurant for a breakfast. Torrential rain outside put us down, we kind of gave up on some of sightseeing we could have done there.<br>11am-13pm: Spa and rest.<br>13:15pm: May drove to Kawaguchiko ...

... festival)is believed to be calming the eruption of Mt. Fuji by burning fire. The "Omikoshi" (the portable shrine) and "Mikage mikoshi" (literally means the great silhouette, referring the red Mt. Fuji) parades from Sengen Shrine to the city's Main Street to arrive at "Otabisho" (the goddess' temporary resting place ...

... walked along the "komachi" street. We spotted a japanese teppan stake restaurant and had lunch there. (p.s. While working on this blog, I just learned that we had a rare "hayama beef", only 200 cows were raised each year in hayama, miura pennensula).<br><br>Mothers of Kamakura<br>Teppan Stake House 2-2-17 Komachi, Naito ...

... book in advance, two inside one that you book and one that you can just use when it is available. We were ever so politely met when we arrived by Mariko. The hotel in Tokyo had helped us book the first two nights but Mariko helped us book the rest of our stay before we leave for Tokyo. She was ever so patient and we are here Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. We go to the Moto-Hakone Guest House for Wednesday and back to ...