On the drive to Mt. Fuji we have lunch at a restaurant near a beautiful lake
View of Mt. Fuji just before getting on the road up - there is an old amusement park
Nine levels to get to the top of Mt. Fuji - Mitchie, our driver, took us up to the 5th station
View of Mt. Fuji on our drive to ride a gondola in Hakone
Taking the Hakone Ropeway gondola with a view of Lake Ashi
Owakudani - volcanic valley in Hakone
Lots of vents and sulphur odor
View of Mt. Fuji from Owakudani
Shibuja Crossing - Tokyo’s Times Square
Bustling area of Tokyo
Wednesday, October 12
Emperor of Tokyo’s Palace - currently Emperor Naruhito
Impressive statue of General Kusunoki Masashige of the Kamarkura Period. He is remembered as the ideal of samurai loyalty
Torii Gate at Meiji Shinto Shrine
Meiji Shrine is located in a forest of 170 acres with a variety of different tree species
Japanese family celebrating their daughter’s 3 years of age at the Shrine
Visiting Tsukiji Outer Market
Next: Learning to make sushi
Our ingredients for sushi
Anne’s sushi 
Maddy’s sushi
Master Sushi Chef and his sushi 
Entrance to Asakusa Temple which holds the largest paper lantern in Japan
Tokyo Tower (33 meters tall) - some of the steel used to build the tower came from donated U.S. battle ships after the war
View from the Tokyo Tower
Looking down from the see thru portion of the Observation Deck in the tower
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