and hopefully also manage a boat trip. Fortunately if you bought a combined ticket it worked out loads cheaper, much to our relief! Unfortunately we were a little bit too hasty in our eagerness to get out and ended up waiting for about half an hour for the cable car station to open. It was absolutely freezing as the cable car station was out of the sun, so we had to just try and keep moving to keep warm!!! Finally when the cable car opened no surprises we were the first in the queue and the trip up was even better than it had been the day before, due to the better weather conditions. We raced around to the viewpoint and WOW what a view!! If it had been climbing season then I think we both would have been up for climbing it. We had about half an hour at the viewpoint before we had to go back down to the town to get our boat trip. It was great up at the viewpoint as the sun was shining and it felt warm and obviously the views weren’t bad!!!

We made it down to the boat with about 5 minutes to spare before it set sail, the trip was only half an hour but we figured this would be enough time to be out of the deck of a boat! It was 10.30 a.m. by this point and it was that cold that the lake was still frozen and our boat had to cut its way through the ice - it was wicked to watch the ice as it shattered and then slid across the rest of the unbroken ice. As the boat headed out towards the middle of the lake and round a corner Mount Fuji came into view and again it looked awesome. It is such a majestic looking mountain and by this point it had a thin layer of cloud about a third of the way down from its cone, definitely a picture postcard moment. Needless to say we had enough photos of it to wallpaper a small room!!! But hey its not everyday you get to see Mount Fuji - the most sacred mountain in Japan!

We were both extremely relived