Tokyo Life

Today we took a two hour train ride to Hakone to get the sweetest view of Mt. Fuji. We weren’t successful.

After a ferry ride, bus, and cable car, we finally saw it.

The way Hakone is set up is very accessible. The buses, ferry ride, and cable car form a huge loop around the city, so it’s easy to take in the scenery.

Chrissy and Vasili told us of this crazy hotspring area called Yunessun. After our day of travel, we had to check it out. Words cannot describe how bizarre it was. The hot springs were broken up into different themes, and I can now say I know what swimming in coffee is like. Click on this link and keep scrolling down. Chrissy mentioned a pool where the fishes came and ate away at your body, but the sign said they were sleeping so we didn’t experience it.

Earlier in the week we visited the surf town of Enoshima with Saiko.

The main attraction was a small island with a lot of shops, restaurants, and shrines. This is one of those areas where we couldn’t eat a single thing. We saw a booth where the cook dropped a bunch of octopus legs on a flattening grill (I don’t cook so the name slips me). They came out paper thin, and the cook got a pair of scissors and started cutting them in squares and served them like huge tortillas.

We later took a tour through one of the under ground caverns. We asked if it was a cheesy tour, and they said no… but the neon lights and dragon roars would end up proving otherwise.

Here’s some pics:

One more story on Enoshima…

We saw this sign up at one of the shrines on the island and apparently it lists the bad luck ages for men (blue) and women (red).

Women in their 30’s don’t stand a chance!