Mount Fuji.

The last time I came to Tokyo, I didn’t even catch the slightest glimpse of Mount Fuji because of the poor weather, but I managed to do so today!

I took a train ride from Shinjuku to Gotemba via Matsuda, and after 2 hours, the grandeur of Mount Fuji was right in front of my eyes. I think the beauty of this mountain can’t really be described in words, and it must be seen to be believed. If you need to see how grand it is, the pictures are on my FB page.

This trip to Japan has really been a leisure trip as I am really just going to places on a pretty ad-hoc basis, heading out to places as and when I feel like. I guess that’s really a very nice relaxing trip for me, though I can probably do with less heartache being dished out by the Hong Kong team. Haha.

Still got a couple of souvenirs to buy, but as far as the shopping is concerned, I think I’m doing just fine.

5-0.

Day 2 in Tokyo was a Sunday, so I went to the Tokyo Baptist Church for the Sunday service. The Tokyo Baptist Church is in reality an international church with the congregation being made up of people from various nationalities. I even managed to meet a fellow Hongkonger who’s married to a Japanese husband! It was really great to see someone from Hong Kong here, and I think I must have heard a couple of Singaporeans chatting with one another because of the accent, but I didn’t really say hi to them.

Spent the afternoon walking around, the first part was from Daikanyama to Shibuya which took me about half an hour at a very leisure pace. It wasn’t really cold today, so it made for a very good walk. After that I headed over to Akihabara to get an adapter for my electrical appliances as I forgot to bring mine over. Had lunch in Akiba, which was a set of rice and soba.

The evening was spent at the National Stadium as the group of us Hong Kong fans gathered to watch Hong Kong take on South Korea in the East Asian Championship. The wasn’t any surprised as Hong Kong succumbed to a 5-0 defeat at the hands of what I feel is the best team in Asia. Let’s just hope the lads pick themselves up and do themselves justice in the next match against Japan. I don’t expect the team to win, to be honest, but they should at least give a good account of themselves instead of getting rolled all over by the opponents that easily.