Turn cold.

Another big update again on account of being lazy but here goes.

 

Sunday morning we woke up pretty late and cleaned up the room, we went and got breakfast and decided to kill some time in one of the million game arcades found all around tokyo, Pat and i played Gundam this game where you control giant robots and try to blow each other up and it was insane! joy sticks and everything it was so fun, then we played Tekken 6 which was good until a japanese dude came and decided to ruin my fun by challenging me and destroying me.

Best game!

Be in Sydney Already!

 

We went to Harajuku to hang out with the Harajuku girls but we saw none, worst! and go shopping and they had such rad boutiques there with the best clothes but it was all so expensive! There were also heaps of op shops that had good stuff but something about wearing old peoples clothes seems a bit odd to me. A lady ambushed us out the front of a store and asked for all our information and took our pictures because she needed westerners to model her clothes but we gave her fake deetz and got bailed. We looked around all of the boutiques and then went for dinner, it was about 6.30 already so we went to a italian restaurant and got shitty pizza and pasta then went home early and watched a movie because Mitch was leaving early in the morning and we had to wake up very early to leave for Mt. Fuji!

 

I finally fell asleep at around 1.30ish and heard the alarm go off at 5.30, we all tried to prolong the inevitable for as long as we could but after several more alarms we finally got up at 5.45 and got ready to leave for the station. We caught the train to Shinjuku because thats where our bus to Fuji was leaving from and mitch got off somewhere in between because he was leaving to back pack through Cambodia, Vietnam and Hong Kong for the next month or so. So we bid him farewell and arrived at Shinjuku frantically looking for the bus because we were late and very lost but we found it and got on the bus to Fuji. Sean, Pat and i were dead tired so we fell asleep on the way waking up momentarily along the way to see glimpses of Mt. fuji towering above the tokyo skyline. I couldn’t sleep any longer so i was just listening to music staring out the window at the desolate and isolated country side that was beautiful in its landscape but quite out of the way from the city that many people had abandoned it for the city, there were many houses there still though and it was such a nice location for them, so serene. 

I fell asleep again gazing out the window and awoke to the site of a giant snow laden mountain towering 100′s of feet above anything, and 1 amazingly tall, very large roller coaster. We got off the bus and it was freezing but we still had a few minutes before the theme park opened so we took pictures of Mt. Fuji and then went in. For the past couple of months that i’ve been psyched for this amusement park pat has been saying that we wouldn’t come on any rides at all and today he actually stuck to his guns which sucked because he did nothing the whole day and watched us have the best day ever but we did give him plenty of opportunities to come with us but still nothing, he wouldn’t come on anything at all not even the smaller rides so i think that maybe he has a hidden thing with rides. Sean and i headed for the biggest roller coaster first… Fujiyama. The whole way up the 70 metre drop i was freaking out but there was the most amazing view of everything. 

By the end of the Fujiyama i was literally weeping maybe from sheer terror, excitement, everything. It just got me so psyched on travelling, hanging out with friends overseas and giant roller coasters!

My ride pass.

Looked out the bus window to see this!

So so big!

 

After that Sean and i went to Dodonpa which was one of the fastest roller coasters ever built and has the highest acceleration speed of any roller coaster, your cart is in a tunnel and immediately is accelerated to 172 km/h and goes through curves and up a giant vertical drop which you actually feel as if its going to fly off. After that Sean, Pat and i got lunch and Sean and i rode other rides getting psyched for Eejanaika, Which was a 4d roller coaster, 

“4th Dimension” coaster, a design in which the seats can rotate forward or backward 360 degrees in a controlled spin.”

BEST RIDE EVER!

Just from watching it i was terrified but Sean made me do it and im so happy he did because i would have been shattered if i didn’t but it actually was the scariest thing i have ever done/seen/been near in my life but it was so so rad. After that we went and found pat and had some fries and Sean and i wanted to go back to the Eejanaika but it was shutting so we couldn’t and the line for the Fujiyama was too big so we didn’t get to ride that again either so we left and took more pictures of Mt. Fuji and just had one last walk around before going to wait in the 4 degree weather by Mt. Fuji for our bus that we had to wait 2 hours for. We finally got on the bus and we were so dead and hungry we went straight to the ramen restaurant and i had the chili ramen with wedges on the side, it was amazing and i’m pretty sure that im in love with that girl who always serves us, she’s a bit cute. We finished that and rushed home in the cold and after this i’m going to pass out and not wake up for a long time.

Sun was in my eyes

I bought a panda from the store near Fuji!

It was so much bigger in person!

It was beautiful!

Chili ramen.

Today has got me so psyched to travel, and i’m considering after this going home, saving, and coming back and back packing through all of japan because you definitely can not take all of this country in in such little time but we will see.

I love Japan, and I love ramen girl!

(I have so so many photo’s from the day on Seans camera aswell so as soon as i get them i’ll put them up!)