Today is mount fuji day highest mountain in Japan 12000 ft.sat in a cafe having breakfast staring at the mountain,excited and worried(fitness levels of a 20 a day smoker...no excuse but one I will be using several times during this blog)......UPDATE 1 ..at station 6 sat in the clouds which very refreshing the mountain is a volcano which meant the first part of my climb was through lava rock which is like climbing 50 degrees through sand sucks the life out of your...

Ok last japanese blog so Just a few thoughts on japan as i haven't done much in the last few days besides shop drink chat eat and oh,visited the famous red light district which is pretty underwhelming besides the various offers for illicit meetings (one from a tout dressed as a stormtrooper ,maybe it was some weird star wars fetish bar??)you could be in any shopping street in tokyo as in all things,, japan is a closed of society everything is behind closed doors ...

After a strange breakfast, miso soup, salmon teriyaki,sushi rice,pickled vegetables,sesame greens and a fried egg ..with an old jukebox playing Beatles records in the background at 8.30 in the morning ,picked for me by the manager who stated they were English like me.I find my self bored napping on a bench in the Center of town chain smoking listening to the stone roses , who played a few days ago at the fuji rocks festival in the ski resort a few hours away trie...

After 7 o'clock start and a five hour journey I arrived at my rykon ( traditional Japanese guest house).i was greeted by the excited owner an old Japanese man who enquired as my plans in yudanka ,on telling him I had no plans he excitedly pulled out map after map scribbling in red pen all over them I nodded politely slightly confused by the world wind of suggestions ."ok I show you the room then we go "said the friendly Japanese owner .the room was like an apartm...

Japan never fails when you think you have seen every weird thing Japan has . Something else appears.walking back from the noodle bar with a few of the guesthouse residents we stubble on about a hundred Japanese dressed in what I can only describe as children's fancy dress dancing down the streets of this tiny village.what was happening I'm not sure it seemed like an impromptu drunken fancy dress competition.after 10 mins of watching the two aussie lads that were...