Day 6 & 7 in Japan
Well we had Day 6 all planned to go to Mt Fuji, what an adventure!
We ended up taking 7 trains to get there, as the trains we got on anly went part of the way to the final stop before shooting off nowhere near where we wanted, it only took 3 hours on local and express trains 
In the end we got to where we wanted to be, but Mt Fuji was covered in cloud, we did see it while we travelled there, but barely anything when we got off the train.
As it was lunchtime we went and got some curry from a local restuarant, and checked out the timetable to go back home, as we wanted to go down to a nearby lake and check it out.
Near the lake was a cable car up the hill to 1000m to a lookout across the valley to Mt Fuji, even though it was in cloud we decided to take a ride, see the Gallery for some pictures.
It was a great ride and a great view, we (Vic and I) saw some snow monkeys on a track from the gondala. When we got to the top some of Fuji-San was peeking out.
We had a short time to stay up at the lookout, as we needed to get back to the station to catch the 3 trains back home, so we hoofed it back in shortorder, by the time we got to the station Fuji-San had cleared right up, it was marvelous.
We had a nice ride back home, but we almost missed our connection halfway on the changeover to the JR line at Otsuki, as we had all dozed off we got off in time though
The next day saw us off to the snow, on the Bullet train, almost to Nagano, we were dissapointed as there really wasn’t anywhere for the kids to play, so we decided to go back, and we went to the big Buddhist temple near Ueno in Asakusa, it was great, we threw some coins, did some claps and got some great bargains and photos, it was Coming of Age day holiday so we got a nice photos of some girls in their Kimonos.
We are off to Kyoto on Day 9, more entries to come.
Osu
Mark, Vic, Beth, Marek, and Brittany