After leaving Yokohama we headed to Kawaguchi-ko to see Mt Fuji. It was a bit of a mission, we had to get 3 trains but we got there in the end. When we got there it seemed a bit drizzly but we thought it would be ok. We started walking to Fuji and it started pouring down with rain we got soaked but had come this far so we were not turning back. We decided to stick to our plan and get the cable car up to the viewing platform, funnily enough there were no queue...

konnichiwa from japan, sorry it's taken us a while to start our journal up, we've been having some issues with the website and lack of net access. we started out in tokyo and what a way to start. the weather was scorchio, we got to the hostel and dumped our packs and went exploring.we were staying in a district called asakusa which we loved. the hostel was in a great location just two minutes from subway station, a very nice (and cheap ) restaurant arou...