Mount Fuji to Osaka

Today was a bit of a travelling day. I tried a run before breakfast but it was a bit stop start to be honest. Today with managed to order the Western breakfast.

After this we walked up to the Mount Fuji Highland station and caught the train one stop to Mount Fuji station where we are going to get a coach for the two hour trip back to outer Tokyo.

In theory we should then have had about 20 minutes to catch our first bullet train of the trip. In reality our bus was late and so we ended up running from where the bus dropped us off through the station and found platform, fortunately, just as the Train was coming in to the station.

The managed to get on the train and then walked about 8 carriages long to find the seats that we had reserved. The train itself was quite impressive and very smooth and we managed to use an app to see that we were travelling at about 180 mph an hour for much of the journey from Tokyo to Osaka. We cover the 300-ish miles in 2 hours 20 minutes and arrived on time to the second.

At the station we eventually found the exit and after exchanging our rail vouchers for later in the holiday, we caught the metro a few stops to the main station in Osaka. After some searching, we eventually found the shuttle bus to our hotel where we checked in at about 4pm.

It turns out that our room is on the 25th floor and has a view of lots of other skyscrapers around. After checking in we went straight to the lounge for afternoon tea and then to the room for a quick shower before heading back out for the evening.

And what an evening it was! Seven tourists and our guide Taiga... Fistop, we made octopus balls, also called Takoyaki. Next week went to a bar where we drank sake and then we ended up in a more locals bar with lots of drinks. The tour ended and we got home eventually at about 3:30 a.m..Read more