Mt Fuji With Snow!

Check out this view! Mt Fuji with snow! How lucky are we? We were told that to see Mt Fuji clear was a rarity, but to see it clear with snow was even rarer! Yes, the pic is mine, taken through the glass of the window in the foyer of the hotel. No wonder it was a little chilly out earlier that day.

Tokyo Tower Postcard 1

We were on limited time in Tokyo and this stop to the observation deck of Tokyo Tower would more than likely be my only one ever, so I had purchased some postcards as memories.

Postcard one is Mt Fuji. Yes, we did get to see Mt Fuji, and we were lucky enough to see this famous mountain on a clear day. But would we get to see it covered in snow? I didn't think so, so hence this postcard of Mt Fuji covered in snow.

Tokyo Tower Views Pt 3

Still further around the observation deck of Tokyo Tower we get a clear view to the mountains. The bump, just left of center, is Mt Fuji. It was one of those rare clear days and we got to see the mountain. There is also that constant sea of high rise.

Tokyo Skyline

Finally a clear day! The typhoon had gone taking all the rain with it, and this was the view that we were left with. This pic was taken through  the window of the foyer in our hotel. Yes, that is a fairly clear Mt Fuji in the background. Mt Fuji, over 12,000 feet in height, the tallest mountain in Japan, and over 100 kms from Tokyo.

Mt Fuji and Rain

One of the girls we were travelling with had managed to get us reserved seats on the Shinkansen. It was organized so that we would be sitting on the side of the train to give us the best views of Mt Fuji, that is if Mt Fuji was visible on the day. I had heard that Mt Fuji was only clearly visible about 30 days a year, and this day was clearly not one of them. Somewhere under all that cloud from the approaching typhoon was Mt Fuji. Ah...... maybe next time.