Japan: Day Five, Mt. Fuji and Hakone

Since Lena has a lot more free time than I do, she beat me to the report on our Sunday trip to Mount Fuji and Hakone. Also, since she is the beauty in our pairing, I am not going to bother posting any pictures of myself. Actually, now that I think of it, I don't have any pictures of myself, they are all in Lena's album. I have a whole bunch of pictures of her and she was too shy to share them with you, so I'll fill in the gap.

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Complete album (and there is more there than just Lena):
Mt. Fuji/Hakone

Japan: Day Six, Yokohama

During the planning stages of this trip I decided to visit Yokohama if I get a chance. There really isn't any rational explanation for my desire to drop by this fairly young modern city unless you know that Yokohama is a sister city of Odessa. And it's very close to Tokyo. And it has a very nice Japanese garden (I have a weakness for Japanese gardens) that was created in early 1900s but actually contains some very old historical buildings that were moved to the garden from other sites, restored and artfully arranged to display them to their best advantage. So, all those reasons combined to give me a perfect day trip from Tokyo. On Monday I hopped onto JR train and a short ride later was getting off at Yokohama station. Additional half hour on the bus, after some confusion I did manage to first get onto the correct bus and then get off at the correct stop, and I was at the Sankeien Garden.

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Complete album:
Yokohama