Almost at Mt. Fuji
Posted by Shino Ito
We scheduled our vacation time from work around August due to my schedule at work. We haven’t been back to Japan for three years now and it was time for us to visit our parents. When we were planning on what to do in Japan beside do just family stuff, I came up with 2 plans. One was to attend Okazaki firework festival, which is one of the best in the nation, and to climb Mt. Fuji.
I had a chance to climb Mt. Fuji back 1992, however, typhoon was on the way and I missed my chance then. 15 years later, I was once again attempt to climb Mt. Fuji. To get to Mt. Fuji, we’ve bought bus tour to Mt. Fuji from near by train station. We bought just a ride so that we could climb on our own speed with just two of us without any help. This was ideal since toured climb often goes very slowly.
We took a route from Boston to San Francisco and San Francisco to Nagoya. On the airplane to Nagoya, flight attendant told us that Japan was expecting typhoon. Once we landed safely with a bit of ... more »
Posted: August 27, 2007 11:00 pm | 1 comment
Tags: 2007, fuji san, Japan, japanese, mt. fuji, summer