Fuji-san ni ikimashita

Yesterday I went on my long-awaited trip to Mt. Fuji. Unfortunately, the weather forecast wasn't as accurate as I'd hoped. It turned out that the mountain--which is so large it can sometimes be seen 60 miles away in Tokyo--was so completely covered in clouds that you couldn't see it from the city at its base. I had a walk around the town for a few hours and got to see one of the nearby lakes, so it wasn't altogether a disappointment. Here are a couple of pictures:



Photos:

• Left: a view of the mountains across Kawaguchi-ko (Lake Kawaguchi)
• Right: somewhere behind those clouds is the biggest mountain in Japan. If you look very closely on the right side of the photo, just between the train cables and the rooftops, you can see a little bit of snow on the side of the mountain. The darker color that runs across the entire photo, immediately above the houses, is the base of the mountain. That's about as much as I saw all afternoon.