When the trip to Fugi-san was mentioned I knew right away this was the trip. I really wanted to see Fugi-san and I wanted to travel through the Japanese countryside. I would get to do both.
The bus picked us up at the hotel at 8 a.m. There were about 20 of us that had chosen this trip. This bus was filled with JFMF teachers and other tourists with the same objective. Very
interesting because not everyone was from the United States, but we all had the same objective. We got stuck in a traffic jam trying to leave Tokyo. This put us behind schedule and we were unable to stop at the Mt. Fugi visitors center. We did stop at a restaurant where we could see Mt. Fugi and eat our Japanese style box lunch. Then we were off again to head up the mountain.

We were able to travel to the 5th station. It is closed above the 5th station until July and then
closes again in October. After hours of driving we finally reached our destination. We had 25 minutes to look at Fugi-san and visit the gift shop. Not much time and I had to go to the restroom. I decided this was the place to finally attemp to us the Japanese style trough toilets. I was surprised it was not that difficult.



Our next stop was a boat ride across Lake Ashi. This was a refreshing ride with the wind blowing through our hair and a wonderful view of the mountains around us.


The last part of our journey was riding back to Tokyo on the Shinkansen bullet train. The ride was a gentle sway back and forth. When you looked out the window it did not seem like you were traveling at almost 200 km/hr.
Back to the hotel to pack. Tomorrow we leave for Chiba City and Monday we continue on to Katori City. I am leaving 1 bag in Tokyo full of items I have purchased and dirty laundry. I also found out that an earthquake hit 2 hours away from Tokyo that measured 7.1 on the richtor scale at 8:30 this morning. At the time we were on a bus stuck in traffic. I didn't feel a thing.
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