And so ends our Japan chapter... Having finished with Tokyo yesterday, we spent today by heading out to Mount Fuji on the West side of the island. An hour-and-a-half bus ride got us to the base of Fuji, where we hung out for a little while. Our tour guide, Harry, then took us up to the 3rd-highest point that buses can go, as the 2 higher points were too snow-covered to reach. After about a half hour on Fuji, we headed out to lunch at this Japanese restaurant that was also part of the tour. We met a really nice Australian couple at this point, with whom we'd proceed to hang out for the duration of our day. From Fuji, we went to another town on the other side of the mountain. Once there, we took
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