Oct. 22nd, 2024

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A few weeks ago I began to give a potted version of my trip to Japan last March-April, with my daughter and her boyfriend. I didn't get very far, because Flickr (where I keep my pictures for importing to LJ) was playing up - and still is, as far as my main computer is concerned. However, I'm now on a laptop, so I'm going to put just a few highlights here. Just a few because I'm now actually back in Japan again, and will be blogging properly (i.e. in something more approaching real time) from hereon out, d.v.

So, we left you just as we were about to leave Tokyo for Hakone, and thence Kyoto. I had booked - not quite a ryokan but an onsen hotel, situated on the old Tokaido in Hakone, for daughter and boyfriend (D&B) and the next day we made an attempt to take the funiculuar railway (which they call a cable car) and the cable car (which they call a ropeway) to Ashinoko, with the hopes of catching a glimpse of Fuji. Alas, we were prevented by a thunderstorm, so had to go back by the same route, thence to Odawara Castle, where many young boys were pretending to be ninjas (a ninja TV series partly filmed there having been recently broadast (House of Ninjas, if you have Netflix). Fuji did peep out in time to be spotted from the Shinkansen, however.

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