On the last day of the seven day rail pass, the agenda involved getting back to Osaka, with lunch in Nagoya en route.
The key question, however, involved the viewing of Mount Fuji, and as I typed this, heading out of ShinYokohama, the omens looked favourable.
It seems the Frockster Factor has finally been overcome.
Breakfast downstairs at the hotel had offered the usual healthy array, but significantly omitted the chicken salad which had been the highlight the previous two mornings.
Just when I was starting to regard it as something to look forward to amidst the array of Disgustingly Healthy Offerings.
Upstairs, we packed and headed off to Roppongi Station, thence to Ebisu and Shinagawa, where we joined the Shinkansen line.
It’s not that far from Tokyo to ShinYokohama, we’d shortened the distance by boarding at Shinagawa, and we already knew you could see Mount Fuji from a westward-facing room at Yokohama’s New Otani Inn.
On that basis, it should come as no surprise to learn it wasn’t long after we left ShinYokohama when the Frockster Factor was finally overcome. That initial sighting of Fuji-San was the signal for Hughesy to put the iPad to rest for a bit while we enjoyed the view and worked through the difficulties associated with taking a decent photo from a speeding Shinkansen.
Those difficulties were exacerbated by variations in the surrounding landscape, and, particularly, power lines and such strung along the train line.