Saturday, Yumi and I headed out to Mt. Takao to meet up with Kayo to 
climb the mountain (elevation 600 meters = 1900 feet). Apparently there are ugly big-headed monkeys there but we didn't see them. It was a beautiful day and we had a nice time. At higher elevations we got nice views of Tokyo, Yokohama, and other mountains. It wasn't the clearest day unfortunately. If it were clearer we could have seen Mt. Fuji. We left the apartment at 8:30am and arrived 2 hours and several train rides later. We climbed from 11am until about 3pm then headed to the Shinjuku area of Tokyo to do a bit of window shopping and have dinner. We finally got back home around 12 hours after we originally left..
A few observations from the hike:
1. Japanese love dogs; specifically small dogs and they love taking them everywhere they go.
2. It is particularly Japanese that the whole path up the mountain was paved.
3. It is also typical that there were shops and vending machines all the way up.
4. Of course there were shrines, temples, and various other statues along the way.
5. Perhaps needless to say, in this country of 125,000,000 people squeezed into the size of California and being just outside of a conurbanation of 35,000,000 people (the largest in the world), it was crowded!
A few observations from the hike:
1. Japanese love dogs; specifically small dogs and they love taking them everywhere they go.
2. It is particularly Japanese that the whole path up the mountain was paved.
3. It is also typical that there were shops and vending machines all the way up.
4. Of course there were shrines, temples, and various other statues along the way.
5. Perhaps needless to say, in this country of 125,000,000 people squeezed into the size of California and being just outside of a conurbanation of 35,000,000 people (the largest in the world), it was crowded!
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