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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
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Finally we reached the main town of Motomachi and went to Hama-no-yu onsen. This is an outside hot spa on a cliff overlooking the port. On clear days there are fine views of Mt Fuji, but today was cloudy. Still there was something tranquil about sitting in a hot pool, watching rain clouds gather over the volcano.
One thing that struck Joan on her first visit to Japan was the vending machines almost on ...
The Elusive Mt Fuji
We’ve had quite a lazy day today (for once). First we took the train from Kyoto to Odawara (going east) - with the obligatory box of sushi for lunch on the train. Just before Odawara we got a glimpse of what we think was Mount Fuji - but it was only momentary! Then we got two local trains - each one climbing higher up into the mountains - the last one going up a series of switchbacks. We finally arrived at Myanoshita, a small ...
Japan moto trip (Izu Skyline)
... in had a train station so I always aimed for that. Shimoda is a beautiful little place. Make sure you take the time to go for a walk. It’s so quiet. There are so few cars you can just walk down the middle of the road almost. I checked out Perry’s memorial, a US seaman who negotiated to start trading with the Japanese by landing in Shimoda a couple of centuries ago… including just traipsing along the shore checking out boats and people fishing.
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Amenities
- Free parking