just went to hakone today.
can only catch a small glimpse of fuji mountain due to bad weather.

not all places is reachable by the train. have to take the hakone tozan bus sometimes.

hakone is all about onsen and glimpse of fuji mountain.

if you are not into onsen and not into fuji mountain, better do not go there at all.

something like yunessan, near to kowakien

mt hakone is a bit far from fuji.
if you are hiking via different route than going through hakone, i dont see how it will be affected.

of course there are also possibilities if there will be earthquake/volcano in hakone, it might trigger a some volcanic activity in fuji incase their magma chambers are connected. just follow your tour guide, they will not want you to risk your life as much as theirs.

i covered both kamakura and yokohama in a day.
yokohama went to minato mirai, kamakura went for the big buddha and the shrine.
there were some wedding in the shrine that day so we became the spectator for japanese traditional wedding.

yes, shibuya can be considered as part of tokyo.

the jr rail counter girl in narita is very fluent in english.
just ask her if you are unclear.

imho, the ticket is valid for the 2 journey only, the destination is already printed on the ticket.
however, there were no one checking our ticket that day when we took the nex.

however, there are people checking our ticket when we took the shinkansen green class and gran class.

Just spent 2 days in Disneysea and Disneyland, I think I have never spent that much time queuing before.

The order would be, fastpass, queue, fastpass, queue, fastpass, queue.
Already preplanned the route and also with the disney early entrance for staying in disney brand hotel, we manage to cover 2 attractions quite early.

Anyway, the train is japan is just so efficient, always on time. and multiple lines serving 1 destination, for example, i can take keihin-tohoku, tokaido, and yamanote line to go to my hotel in shinagawa.

Earthquake just now somewhere 800 km off the coast of Japan.. Was up in 6th floor of Tokyo skytree. Can see the tea in the cup shaking. Felt the whole building is swinging. But no blackout and Internet become intermittent.

Many trains were delayed when I reached shinagawa. Lots of stuck passengers.

The maruka udon which regentcid sensei recommended.they only have Japanese menu. Gee. Have to rely on instinct to order.

Hope train will not be affected tomorrow.

yup, we were shaking left to right in our chairs.
but looking at the people beside our table and they were so calm.
we just have to pretend to be calm as well.

well i did order bukkake udon, stone cold udon with weird stuff.
it is not the best bukkake udon i have tried before.
guess one man's food is another man's poison.