Climbing Fuji-san part 2

Saturday 23/5 – Sunday 24/5:
So we made our camp close to station 5 and set out exploring the area with our extra time. We took a lot of foggy pictures, with a little sun here and there. Here is an example of the landscape above the three line. The “something something” degree slope was pretty [...]

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Climbing Fuji-san, part 1

Saturday 23/5:
Ok, here it comes. After writing about a countless number of mountains that I have climbed here in Japan, I am actually gone write about a mountain you all sure have heard about before, mount Fuji, or Fuji-san.
3776 meters tall, which makes it about 1000 meter taller than my last and my highest ever [...]

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Sun umbrellas, the swine flue and visiting the Emperors palace

Sunday 21/5:
Which is actually not such an easy thing as it might sound. First of all, the Emperors palace, or Tokyo Imperial palace as it is called is only open to the public two days of the year, that is January 2, which is New Year’s Greeting day over here, and a big thing, and [...]

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Norwegian day ^^

Sunday 17/5:
17 of May were truly a Norwegian day. First of all it is Norway’s national day, which is celebrated properly with flags, children parades, national dresses, food, ice-cream and so on. This is done all over the country, but also at the different embassies we have trough out the world. So that was what [...]

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A small mountain trip and Golden week

Sunday 3/5:
The day after I went on a short Wander Vogel trip to a small mountain outside of Tokyo. Actually I had been in the area before, on my first camping trip in Japan, which I wrote about in this post (Ps: in Norwegian). It was golden week by the way, so there were lots [...]

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Doing the Japanese countryside by bus

Saturday 2/5:
The next Saturday we all met again for another Yuka arranged event, this time taking us out of Tokyo for some sightseeing. Us this time was a few YSEP students again and a Japanese friend of Yuka.
It was very typical Japanese style sightseeing, that is everything was done in a big group, with guides [...]

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Maid Café, Ghibli Museum and a Music Performance

Saturday 25/4:
Ok, still working on catching up with my blog and jumping ahead to the next unique event of my life, going to a Maid Café for the first time and Ghibli Museum.
It was a gray and rainy Saturday, packed with Japan experiences all arranged by Yuka, my host family friend. She is really good [...]

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