Mount Fuji and tokyo
Pictures from the climb up Mount Fuji with Anne and the visit in Tokyo with Anne and Katie, all before heading back to the States.
Fuji 5th Station crowds.
Fuji 5th Station restaurants and crowds.
Anne and I Before.
Some sign everyone was waiting to take their pictures with.
Start of the trail.
Doesn't seem so bad so far!
Anne on the early part of the trail, already leaving me behind.
Fuji 6th Station - a lot of people just climb to here.
Some little trail god.
The weather was like this a lot of the way, cutting down on visibility.
The trail ahead to the 7th station.
A sign at the 7th station.
Resting and enjoying the brief sun...
... before moving on amongst the crowds.
View over the clouds from the 8th Station Fuji-san Hotel.
It's nice to be so high, but was an awful lot of work to achieve.
Anne and I at the summit, wet, cold, and miserable, but accomplished.
About as much of the Mount Fuji "sunrise" as we saw.
Our summit refuge.
Anne and I After.
The temple in Tokyo near our hostel. I forget the name.
Me getting tatted up.
Carlos, the awesome tattoo artist, at work.
A cool yarn shop we found near the tattoo parlor.
The Ghibli Museum, into which we could not go.
Ginza.
Yakitori and cheap beer. Yea!
I say good-bye to Katie in Harajuku.
Great big park, great big torii. Forget the name.
Harajuku kids. Very disappointing.
Rockabilly dudes. Way more entertaining.
These guys (and one girl) were dancing the day away.
Shibuya.
That big famous crosswalk at Shibuya.
Tsujiki Fish Market.
Giant fish at Tsujiki. Yum.
Fish head.
A look at the outside of the Tsukiji Fish Market.
The Imperial Palace.
My knitting at the Imperial Palace.
Big fountain in Ueno Park.
Tokyo National Museum.
Exhibit on the woodblock printing as it created that famous big wave. Part 1.
Woodblocking exhibit part 2.
Woodblocking part 3.
Okonomiyaki and the Tokyo version, the name of which I also forget.
Anne and I at karaoke my last night in Japan.
Nothing like some Bon Jovi for karaoke.
Fuji and Tokyo
