Mt Fuji! (Shinjuki)
2019年4月11日, 日本 ⋅ 🌬 13 °CJumping on the metro to Shinjuki, we headed for the Tokyo local government building, which has a free observatory on the 45th floor. From here, the view of Mt. Fuji was absolutely stunning - we hadもっと詳しく
Jumping on the metro to Shinjuki, we headed for the Tokyo local government building, which has a free observatory on the 45th floor. From here, the view of Mt. Fuji was absolutely stunning - we hadもっと詳しく
The final stop for the morning was the Akasaka Palace - something like Versailles crossed with Buckingham Palace. After a false start (getting off a station too early on the metro) we walked theもっと詳しく
Our metro tickets got us a good way out of Tokyo but not to the cruise port. So we had to get off at Meguro metro and buy a train ticket to Nihon-Odori. Annoyingly we would actually be getting back onもっと詳しく
After much deliberation, and a very rough night on the seas, we decided the cruise ship's $159pp trip to Matsushima Bay was more than we could countenance. So instead, we disembarked after breakfastもっと詳しく
On our way back to the ship, we climbed the big hill (as is our cruise tradition) in Ishinomaki up to Hiyoriyama Park. The park overlooks the shore of Ishinomaki where the tsunami hit. Today buildingもっと詳しく
After a far calmer night, we arrived into Hakodate on Hokkaido greeted by a local girls school dancing on the pier. The ship's shuttle bus dropped us at the station and after a shaky start (couldn'tもっと詳しく
A somewhat lackadaisical start to the day - we had to wait to be called for Japanese immigration but we were group 10. We waited for the best part of an hour after docking and they were only at groupもっと詳しく