Mt. Fuji

We made it to Mt. Fuji today.  It took us awhile, but we did it!  We started at 7:15am and took a local train to the Shinagawa station where we picked up the Shinkansen.  Oh, Eli was in Shinkansen heaven!  The bullet train went about 150mph.  We took that about 1 hour to Shin-Fuji where we then boarded a bus that took about 2 hours to get to the fifth station on Mt. Fuji.  When we arrived, it was raining.  But, we put on our rain jackets and Shelby purchased a poncho to put over her bag.  We hiked up to the 6th station and then went to a crater near there.  After a hike back down, we had a tasty lunch of different noodles at the fifth station. Then, we took the reverse trip back to Tokyo.  Meanwhile, Shelby and Dave both read their books and Eli enjoyed the trains.

For dinner, Eli finally got to try the conveyer belt sushi.  Yum!