Sunday, July 5, 2015

Kawaguchiko 4/7/15

有山有水,有熊有尼姑,part 2! Arrived at one of the Fuji Five Lake after a 3 hours ride (prolonged cos of some traffic accident jamming the road) 

Walked, as usual, and this was when I thought my umbrella's gonna be a burden for this trip 

Headed for the Herb Hall and reached after about 20 minutes. Pretty interesting, especially the kind of things they sell inside 

Nice flower mural thingy too! 

Next was lunch, at the small hut behind us 

It says 不動茶屋 but it's famous for noodles 

Pretty wood carved menu 

Wide variety (actually mainly just 3 type of mains); so much that this girl looked at it for quite awhile (actually about 1min only la). But really like this photo! 

Foooooood. Got Soba, while she had Udon. Both were delicious. And when we were there there was only one obasan cooking/serving/taking orders and that involved going under the counter desk multiple times. Impressive 

Our view. Spot Mount Fuji behind the thick layers of clouds 

Took a walk in the super strong wind across a bridge to the other side of the lake and came across this water painting-like backdrop. The mountains were like paper stacked together! 

This is the sightseeing bus; quite retro and we tried to board onto one but were rejected cos it was too full! 

Chilled out at one a the cafe instead 

With a very nice setting. My first Dorayaki here and Matcha cheesecake (more like moose though), not too shabby. 

Walked a good hour back to our starting point and ended our excursion in this small lake. And they have nice manhole paintings! Good enough to be on postcards I think, haha.