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My longest blog in ths trip so far
... wind. Mark was wearing shorts. Will be zero at the Mt? We are now in the bus going there, will see.
Arrived at Mt Fuji, the 5th step (total of 9 steps). very foggy, windy and cold. Sooo foggy that the top of the Mt was fully covered. So we walked around in the shops, the food was good though, corn and Mt Fuji cake (must try).
Taxi heading for onzen now, FujiYama Onzen. About 1000¥ taxi from the train station. The price for this Onzen (1800¥) ...
Trains, Cable Cars and Pirate Ships!
... Owakudani - which is also known as Greater Boiling Valley. It’s the crater of a volcano and as soon as you got off the cable car you could smell the sulphurous fumes - disgusting (well that’s what I think anyway - David seems to like the smell). We walked a little way from the cable car station to a small shop which sold Black Eggs - they are hard boiled eggs which have been boiled in the sulphurous hot pools and seemed to be regarded as quite a delicacy by ...
Tokyo to Izu Oshima
... You could buy almost anything including cigarettes and beer and an isotonic drink named Pocari Sweat. In Tokyo we saw cigarette vending machines and soft drinks machines, but no beer ones. We wondered if they had been banned. However much to Kevin's delight, Joan identified a beer machine which Kevin had to test.
Back at the inn, we had to negotiate all the rules about what footwear one has to use. Take outdoor ...
The Elusive Mt Fuji
... supermarket and bought some meat balls on skewers (they could have been chicken or pork - it was hard to tell but they were tasty) and some sushi and a couple of cakes for our evening meal. The clouds have come in and our hotel room window is almost level with them now and it’s started torrential rain again. Hopefully it’s not going to be like this tomorrow as we are going on cable cars up into the mountains and are meant to ...
Japan moto trip (Izu Skyline)
... day riding a bike here, and I’d found one of the most wicked routes to ride in my life. It’s a skyline for sure, you get views from the ridgeline across the peninsular east and west and it’s fun just to sit and chill at a look out, watching other motorcyclists cruise by, or ogle the other parked bikes. Basically there’s not a straight section of road from the Toyo Tires Turnpike (closed when I went so I had to take Hwy 1) all the way ...
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