Wow. It's so biiiig!

So, we finally got to see all of the elusive Mt. Fuji. This friendly chinese couple also was wowed by its very essence and continued to snap photos of the green hill 45º to the right of Mt. Fuji. We all didn't have the heart to correct them.

Anyhoo -- Mt. Fuji town base was a bit of a let down (except for the view). It was VERY low season since we can't actually climb Mt. Fuji yet. Hence everybody was in a very bad mood, or closed, or in a bad mood because they really SHOULD have been closed. In our only examples of poor service so far - our Taxi driver didn't talk to us and ran up the meter as best he could, our lunch host never said anything other than grumbling and tossed our plates around at us... and the hotel told us that they hadn't turned on the AC yet this summer - so open a window. ;-).

Wow.

But hey... when the sun and Mt. Fuji came out, everybody was friendly again, so maybe it was SAD.

We took the express trains back to Tokyo and then onto Nagoya. We all picked up bento boxes from the station -- unfortunately I made the mistake of eating the potatoe salad one (warm). Bleck.

Nagoya's ridiculously windy - apparently a tree branch fell on somebody today. It's kinda chilly too -- the first time I wanted a jacket. We ate BBQ eel (in 4 different steps) for dinner today. Then we finished that off with some sponge cake - which has a lineup around the corner, even for takeout.

Tomorrow... we tackle the subway system and see if we can find this castle.