Today is our final full day in Kawagouchiko and we start off by walking around the lake to visit some museums. Unfortunately we were not allowed to take many pictures inside. The Art Museum had some amazing photographs of Mt Fuji, lots of award winning photographs on display. It also had painting of Mt Fuji, a good stop.
We came across a small fruit vendor on the side of the road and shared a a very large Fuji apple, thought it was very appropriate. We walked along "Maple Lane" which must be fantastic in the fall colors, this lane led us up to the Itchiku Kubota Art Museum. This museum had a beautiful display of Silk Dyed kimonos. A movie that demonstrated how these kimonos were made similar to tie dye, amazing work. The grounds/gardens around this museum were beautiful as well, loved the doors into the different buildings.
We have now walked quite a bit and decide to take the bus back to the main terminal. Wendy had read about a spot to eat that was right outside the station, so we are off there for lunch. What a fun experience. Lunch was at a restaurant called Hoto Fujo, Hoto is an iconic regional noodle soup from this area that is filled with lots of vegetables. Very delicious. The restaurant was very entertaining, lots of yelling from the kitchen, waiters and cashier. Interesting how it is served in this huge bowl/pot and the spoon you get to help you eat along with our chopsticks. Looked like about 90% of the restaurant was ordering this same soup, the first page of there menu was a picture of only this soup on the page.
After lunch we then took a bus to try to get a picture that is famous of a street with Mt Fuji in the background. Not too successful as the sky was the same colour as Mt Fuji, but it was fun to be in a different neighborhood. Took the local train back to the main station, picked up snacks for supper at 7/11 and called it a night. Wendy is trying her first smoothie. You pick your smoothie package from the freezer, then put it in a machine to make it into a smoothie. From the freezer you can see the different fruit you will have in your smoothie. Fun to try it out. Andre has once again gone for sushi, crazy inexpensive and good even at 7/11.
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| Our walk along the lake this morning to get to the museums |
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| One of the exhibits in Kawaguchiko Museum of Art - Exhibits all on Mt Fuji |
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| Wendy getting another stamp of places we are visiting |
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| Kawaguchiko Museum of Art , very nice building |
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| Walked by the music forest museum, gave this one a pass |
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| Konohana Art Museum, just visited the gift shop here |
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| Outside Konohana Art Museum |
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| Huge Fuji apple |
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| Strawberries are a huge hit here, haven't tried a white one yet, we would never buy these at home. We will break down one day and try it. Prices are crazy, drop the 2 last 0's and you will get the approximate price in Cdn $. Yep, about $8 for one strawberry. |
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| Beautiful entrance to Itchiku Kubota Art Museum |
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| The gardens in Itchiku Kubota Art Museum |
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| Flowers are just starting to bud |
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| Tea room at Itchiku Kubota Art Museum |
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| Miss the bus by 1 minute as we could see it walking down the hill. Only 15 minute walk. |
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| Lunch Stop |
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| Glad that we were at a high table and not at one of the floor ones |
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| Soup pot that lunch came in |
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| Fire truck coming through |
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| Street picture that didn't give us too much of Mt Fuji |
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| Pizza delivery |
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| Famous street that lines up with Mt Fuji |
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| Cute back street on the way to the train station. Non touristy area |
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| Found a temple on the way |
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| with a cemetery |
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| Water bucket station at the cemetery |
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| The tracks lead to Mt Fuji |
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| The train going the other way |
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| We got a very old one |
