Mt. Fuji、HAKONE, Kyoto

QUICK　post because it's 100 yen for 10 minutes on internet here. (Sorry about the weird capitalization, I can't help it.) Yesterday we saw Mt。Fuji, which was pretty neat. We went about halfway up the mountain and took pictures and went to a little shrine there. The tour guide told us that about 100 people jump off of it a year to kill themselves. Fun！Then we went to Hakone, which is a hot springs area . We stayed at a hot springs resort and went in one. You a hot springs resort and went in one. You had to be naked, which was kind of nerve wracking, especially around all the skinny middle aged Japanese ladies. I kept imagining them saying to each other, "Oh, my Ｇｏｄ，　Ｊｕｎｋｏ，　ｌｏｏｋ　ａｔ　ｈｅｒ　ｂｕｔｔ．　　Ｉｔ　ｉｓ　so big. She must be one of those rapper guys' girlfriends." Or something. Anyway, it was nice once I took off my glasses so I couldn't see and pretend other people couldn't see me either.

Today we rode the shinkansen (bullet train) to Kyoto. I love the little choo-choo! Or the not so little choo-choo, as the case may be. The ride was super smooth, like riding in an airplane. But every time another one passed us, the whole train rocked with the force of the wind coming off the beginning and end of the train. I got an awesome picture of the train, but I couldn't find picture of the train, but I couldn't find any postcards of it, which made me sad.

After we arrived and checked intot he hotel, we went back to the station to search for said postcards and eat. Then we took the subway downtown to the Manga Museum. We had a mini-adventure searching for it, so we bought a map. The museum was pretty cool; we saw teh exhibits and read manga for awhile (there was a huge wall of manga with a fair amount of English ones)

We then had another adventure finding the shopping arcade and eventually ducked into a subway station to try and find a map only to find that it wasn't a subway station; it was the shopping arcade! We shopped around and then found a phone book for the karaoke place we wanted to go to (the guide book said it was cheap and had a ton of English songs). We finally found the place, but it was super crowded, so they directed us to another place which was owned by the same people and was super awesome!