Current mood:

cheerful

Tokyo!
Yesterday Chris and I went to Mt Fuji and Hakone on an organised tour.  Unfortunatly it was pretty cloudy so we didn't get a clear glimpse of the mountain but it was still a good day out.  It was nice to have someone else think for you and tell you where to go and what to eat... it was a nice rest.  The day started with Chris and I traveling to the bus station where our tour bus would leave from.  The first stop was the Mt Fuji information centre that had a few cool facts aout the mountain in English.  Did you know that Mt Fuji is an ACTIVE volcano?  Pretty interesting.

The next stop was the 4th station on Mt Fuji.  It has been snowing in the morning so the 5th station where they usually go was closed.  Chris took this picture on our stop.



Because the weather started to change again and get really foggy we headed back down the mountain and with our extra time were able to stop at the Peace Pagoda which was located... somewhere...  in Hakone I think.

Me in front of the Peace Pagoda.  There were cool lion statues from all around Asia in the garden too which was really cool to look at.



Chris and I in front of some stone carving fountain thing at the Peace Pagoda.



After the Peace Pagoda we were back on the road and headed towards a lake in Hakone for a river cruise.  The river cruise/ferry ride lasted about 15 minutes.  It was really cold outside so I stayed indoors and looked out of the windows.  Chris was feeling brave and went out into the cold to take photos.  We then went on a cable car ride up onto some mountain where it was FREEZING and the fog was so thick you couldn't see very far ahead.

Heres me on top of a hill where some shrine ting was.



Chris then made me walk off into the wilderness where we found a rusted up building that use to be another cable ca place.  I found that really odd that they just left the building there like that. SPPOOOOOOOOKKYYYYYYYYY!  Then we walked back to the group which took about 5 minutes because I was over exagerating about the wilderness thing.

I needed to go to the toilet and they only had Japanese style toilets available!!  Boo!



But then I got to ride a horse and that cheered me up quite a bit.



So our hotel in Tokyo is located in Ginza, the most flashiest, poshest place you could imagine.  It is compared with 5th avenue in New York.  Heres a photo of Ginza at night in one of the least fanciest places there is (still really nice!).



A Louie Vutton building!



Chris and I went in search of the Godzilla statue and were very disappointed to find this in its place....



And lastly a photo I begged Chris to take because it was way too cute.  Look veryyyyyy closely at the flowers...



Hello Kitty!!  Isn't that funny!  Well I'm going to go have a look through all the little knick knacks I bought today and eat some Pocky.

Ja Mata!

Also a note that there are 2 other journal entries I did but back dated.