Well,
Its been a crazy first week in Japan.
We were welcomed with open arms by Maggie, Scott and Lucas who Showed us around Tokyo. We had our first conveyor belt sushi experience. Sushi travels by your table on a conveyor belt and you just grab whatever you want. Its Fabulous. Then Scott took us to the top floor of a building to see the Tokyo City View. I knew Tokyo was big but it blew my mind. Buildings as far as you could see in every direction.
We spent our days there checking out the different neighborhoods and stocking up on supplies for our trip.
On Friday morning we loaded up our bikes, said goodbye to the Hansons and rode to Shinjuku train station (we figured it best not to try to ride out of Tokyo on the highways). I thought riding bikes through Tokyo was going to be hectic but it really wasn`t that bad. Once at the station we found a corner and started breaking down our bikes. You have to take them apart and put them in special bags in order to take them on the train- kind of a hassle. We had some language barrier issues but with the help of a phrasebook managed to buy tickets to Mt. Fuji.
We said goodbye Tokyo and one short, scenic train ride later we were in a mountain town at the base of Fuji. We threw our bikes back together and rode a few miles to the Fuji Trailhead where we camped for the night.
By 3:30 am we were up and hiking. We could not see much for the first hour or two but when the sun came up we found ourselves in a mystical forest. It was all lush and mossy - I wouldn`t have been surprised to pass a hobbit on the trail. Every few miles there were Buddhist shrines with various offerings left by climbers before us. It was all very cool.
We soon rose above treeline where the temperature dropped and the wind picked up.
It was bitter cold. But tough guys that we are, we fought through it and made it up to the summit. The crater at the top was gigantic, maybe a mile across and we could`nt see the bottom. It was wild.
The altitude was starting to mess with our heads a bit so we hurried down to a hardy feast of mac and cheese and some much needed sleep.
Fuji: Check!
Its been a crazy first week in Japan.
We were welcomed with open arms by Maggie, Scott and Lucas who Showed us around Tokyo. We had our first conveyor belt sushi experience. Sushi travels by your table on a conveyor belt and you just grab whatever you want. Its Fabulous. Then Scott took us to the top floor of a building to see the Tokyo City View. I knew Tokyo was big but it blew my mind. Buildings as far as you could see in every direction.
We spent our days there checking out the different neighborhoods and stocking up on supplies for our trip.
On Friday morning we loaded up our bikes, said goodbye to the Hansons and rode to Shinjuku train station (we figured it best not to try to ride out of Tokyo on the highways). I thought riding bikes through Tokyo was going to be hectic but it really wasn`t that bad. Once at the station we found a corner and started breaking down our bikes. You have to take them apart and put them in special bags in order to take them on the train- kind of a hassle. We had some language barrier issues but with the help of a phrasebook managed to buy tickets to Mt. Fuji.
We said goodbye Tokyo and one short, scenic train ride later we were in a mountain town at the base of Fuji. We threw our bikes back together and rode a few miles to the Fuji Trailhead where we camped for the night.
By 3:30 am we were up and hiking. We could not see much for the first hour or two but when the sun came up we found ourselves in a mystical forest. It was all lush and mossy - I wouldn`t have been surprised to pass a hobbit on the trail. Every few miles there were Buddhist shrines with various offerings left by climbers before us. It was all very cool.
We soon rose above treeline where the temperature dropped and the wind picked up.
It was bitter cold. But tough guys that we are, we fought through it and made it up to the summit. The crater at the top was gigantic, maybe a mile across and we could`nt see the bottom. It was wild.
The altitude was starting to mess with our heads a bit so we hurried down to a hardy feast of mac and cheese and some much needed sleep.
Fuji: Check!
1 comment:
Hey Mikey,
Did you take a piss on top of that Mt?
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