Koyasan to Hamamatsu to Shizuoka to Fuji Gotemba - 3/7 & 4/7 - Day 7 & 8 - Mobile Edition

#Koyasan to Shizuoka (half days travel)

[Day 7 W]
->5am for morning prayers
->check out the temples
->set off for Shizuoka
->Dinner with Madoka-san and mum
->Long hard pack for Fuji


!!!I forgot, we popped in to Hamamatsu for lunch to see my dear friend Mayuki san, who was 7months pregnant




























When heading back to Osaka, Namba station from Koyasan we headed to Shin-Osaka where we had to activate the JR Pass.

My friend also had to change money, in Japan is it really hard to find FOREX. One good backup is to use ATM in the JP Post office. Most have international facilities. I have heard some 711 also have.




Lunch in Hamamatsu!












Fuji packing and route planning























How to visit Fuji:
Shizuoka > Mishima > Numazu > Gotemba Station > Fuji





How we plan to get there. I was the leader, so I had to organise all the good stuff


 There was to convenient bus to Gotemba, hence we split a Taxi ride.





















Bus timetable for Gotemba and Subashiri







I hate people, hence i took the hardest route










#Shizuoka to Fuji (few hours)
[Day 8 T]
->after a few hour sleep we set off, first thing 5am
->Shizuoka -> Tōkaidō Shinkansen -> Mishima -> Tōkaidō Main Line -> Numazu -> Gotemba Line -> Gotemba station
-> Taxi to Fuji ~5,000Y (no convenient buses, start too late in the day)
-> the fight for our survival begins