Pictures for the last post

This was a picture of people going up the mountain in front of us, one of those traffic jams.



This is a view down the side of the mountain. Fascinating, innit? Can't see shiyyyyit.


This is almost at the top, and I just thought the clouds looked purdy here.


And here's me, at the eighth station, just a little bit away from the top. This was really the first time that we could see much of anything from where we were on the mountain, the first time that we were no longer walking through the clouds itself.


Dominic and I at the top!



This is a picture of the station at the very top. On the top of that little mound in the distance is a shrine for the top of Fuji; on the right, the brown reflective surface is a vending machine. Yep, that's right, vending machines at the top of Fuji. A little anti-climactic, maybe, but them's the breaks. Japan has vending machines EVERYWHERE, and they don't serve everything, as you've been told, only soda, coffee, water, cigarettes, and occasionally booze.