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<\/a><\/p>\nIt\u2019s quite a ways up there, and more a mountain range than just \u201ca\u201d mountain so there\u2019s no one mountain. We even went up to the top of a cable car ride to see more.<\/p>\n
Of course, at the top you could walk up even further to get to a shrine. The shrine and the view were not worth the extra walk, nor were they worth more pictures.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the view from the top of the cable car ride. Here I present a view of\u00a0 You can kind of see the edge of the lake from the view up top (it\u2019s at the right edge) and here\u2019s a better picture. That\u2019s my mom and sister at the left.<\/p>\n Another view from the trip was the stairs at somewhere I forgot the name of. These are famous stairs, as I\u2019ve seen them on Japanese TV. There\u2019s really no end to these stairs (I exaggerate, they\u2019re just very, very long.) We went twice as far as you can see in this picture and we weren\u2019t a quarter of the way up the stairs. I think the top of the stairs leads to another path to another shrine. Very Japanese of them. This picture needs some enhancing too, but that\u2019ll have to wait for later.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not sure how they decide what sort of restaurants are on these mountains. Two years ago we went up a mountain that just had soba noodles. This mountain was all udon noodles. We had way too much udon for lunch.<\/p>\n Oh, and here\u2019s a giant moth for you from the parking lot.<\/p>\n We got back to town in mid-afternoon and my mom and sister had never been to a Japanese Costco. I have no idea why they sell some of the things they do. A lot of things are just like what they have in the US, like those giant pizzas that won\u2019t fit in a normal refrigerator or a normal oven. I don\u2019t remember seeing a Japanese oven, so I\u2019m not sure why they\u2019d have that for sale. Why not get the cooked pizza?<\/p>\n You\u2019re not going to find another giant drink for \u00a560, or another giant hot dog for \u00a5180 in Japan.<\/p>\n I also don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen 48 pieces of sushi for \u00a53000 in any country.<\/p>\n My sister isn\u2019t huge, but this bag of potato chips sure is. They also had those giant bags of tortilla chips they sell in the US and I saw this white dude with two bags of them.<\/p>\n I\u2019m not sure who is going to eat this much bread.<\/p>\n Afterwards my sister and I went to the cheap eyeglass store and I got computer-tinted glasses for about \u00a512,000. ($120) My sister\u2019s were \u00a57990. It took them 15 minutes to cut the lenses for both sets.<\/p>\n Dinner was at a yakiniku place and then I fell asleep watching a baseball game. While the World Series of Baseball is over, the Japan Series of Baseball continues with The Sendai\u2019s Rakuten and The Tokyo Giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve been having a bit of trouble sleeping but what would you expect after the 9 hour time change? Heck, I even have troubles when daylight savings time starts. We went on a trip to somewhere in the middle of nowhere yesterday, and by the middle of nowhere I mean Costco. Actually, we also went to the mountains to see the scenery. It\u2019s quite a ways up there, and more a mountain range than just \u201ca\u201d mountain so there\u2019s no one mountain. We even went up to the top of a cable car ride to see more. Of course, at the top you could walk up even further to get … Continue reading Japan Day 2 I think<\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nMt. Fuji<\/del>\u00a0the haze from China.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n