Mt Fuji

A trip to Japan will never be truly complete without a visit to the famous Mt Fuji. Before we checked out of New Takanawa Hotel in Tokyo, we had our luggage delivered to one of our hotels; New Miyako Hotel in Kyoto.

The Japanese believe in travelling light and came up with this brilliant and ingenius luggage delivery service. This was a great relief for us because with toddlers and prams, moving around the myraid of train and bus stations without a heavy and large luggage on crowded trains and buses made a lot of difference.

After that was settled, we headed out to the Shinagawa station to board the Japan Rail to Shinjuku Station where we would be taking the bus to Mt Fuji.

At Shinjuku Station, we were amazed by how large the place was and we saw this little thing in the toilet which indicted which cubicles were occupied and which were available for use. The Japanese really think of everything, don't they?

And then, we found one of the much-talked about vending machines. Amongst everything else, Japan is really
a place of vending  machines and she truly lives up to expectations when we saw this; a vending machine
which "sells" coupons for food.

After a while, we managed to get our tickets for the Keio Highway Bus for Kawaguchiko Station. Some of the sights we saw along the way. We noticed that there were some families who had turned their gardens into some vegetables farms.

 

 

What was originally a 1 hour 45 minute bus ride turned out to be 3 hours long because we had to make an unexpected detour and coupled with traffic jam, by the time we got to Kawaguchiko Station, it was almost dark and we didn't have much time to explore the place before it got too dark.

But it wasn't all loss because we were delighted with our rooms.

We were warmly received and in Uncle Linus's room, we were treated to green tea, dessert and we were taught how to put on their yukata. Daddy was our model. :)

 

 

 

This was the room that we were putting up for the night. We noticed that the hotels do not provide small bottles of toiletries. Instead large bottles and often branded were placed in the toilet so that waste could be reduced.

We have to talk about the toilet because honestly, this is the best toilet that we have been into.

 

Daddy and C loved the room so much. 

We went around the hotel and took pictures.

 

 

We were informed that dinner was ready and we made our way to the dining hall.

This was just good for one person! Daddy was wondering if he would be full because the meal certainly did not look like it was enough but after all was finished, we were stuffed!

 

 

 

Dessert!

When we got back, our futons were laid out for us but we had other plans. Instead of retiring for the night, we went to soak ourselves in the hot baths. we were alone in there so it was no wonder that Cheryl and Keziah ran amok in there.

 

Taking our showers with others in the bath was a first time for all of us and initially we were kind of shy but it only took us a while before we got over our embarrassment and started to enjoy our hot spring bath.

 

This is the outdoor hot bath. Surprising it wasn't as cold as we thought it would be.

 

 

The next morning, we had our spread of sumptuous breakfast in the dining room again and immediately after
we went for a final dip in the hot bath before we ventured out onto the roof of our hotel to capture some shots with Mt. Fuji.

 

Time flew by really quickly and we had to check out to move onto our next destination, Kyoto. We got a shuttle back to Kawaguchi Station where we boarded the bus to Gotemba Station and then took another bus to Mishima Station where we would be catching the next Shinkansen to Kyoto.