Mt. Fuji: Day 15

Today was pretty much all traveling. We spent about 6 hours changing from train to train until we got to the Mt. Fuji area. At one of the stations we stopped at I took a picture of the fries I got from a vending machine. It heated them up and everything, it was pretty cool. They were also good for vending machine food. It eased my hunger, at least.

Picture from around the station.

My feet.


When we got to the Fuji Five Lakes area a van from our hostel came to pick us up. The guy driving was really nice and friendly. When we got to the hostel we were immediately impressed. The place was amazing, so nice, clean and big. This was definitely a “get more than you pay for” place. Our room was Japanese style again but I liked this one better then the Ryokan for some reason, although the mattresses were a bit thinner. We pretty much just relaxed and rested the rest of the day and night. I caught up on blogging and stuff. We went to a convenience store to get some dinner. We both got to draw cards from this box when we bought stuff and I won glue (YAY!) =P. I ended up accidentally throwing it away later… oh well.

Erin and I made the decision that since the weather sucked and we wouldn’t be able to see Mt. Fuji because of the crappy weather we would just relax and sleep in as late as we wanted, and then just chill all day.

Another cool thing about this hostel was all of the friendly people. I stayed up pretty late talking to this guy from Germany and an American financial consultant about the American economy and some other stuff. We also figured out that after the staff went home we could do ninja laundry for free, so we did. I finally got clean socks and was ecstatic.