My brilliant idea of booking a Mt Fuji day tour the very 1st day of officially being in Japan was a bit of a mistake. Only in the respect that we were so tired and to top on that we had to make our way to Hamamatsucho Station to meet up for the tour. We woke up early, got ready and then went down to breakfast. The Dormy Inn Premium Shibuya Jingumae, included breakfast everyday we stayed there which was amazing. It was a buffet of western/japanese foods, which was delicious, some things weren't to the taste of westerners for breakfast, like cold soft tofu, but they had a good mix that made for a unique breakfast experience. I personally liked having a fried egg, some sort of meat side like bacon bits tossed in vegetables or the boiled chicken stew that they had some days. With some rice (naturally, I mean come on, it's Asia), fruit salad, a small waffle or something like that with coffee or fresh orange juice that the hotel made, SERVING IT INSIDE THE ORANGE ITSELF. Cue picture....now

Anyway, you're probably like, food, drinks, yeah, yeah blah blah get to the actual travel part. I'm just glad with the service of the Dormy Inn, being greeted so friendly with amazing service it was definitely a comfortable atmosphere. Back to the day, once we finished breakfast, we got our stuff ready and we walked to Shibuya Station. From the hotel it took about 10-12mins by walking, we got to the ticket machines and purchased a SUICA card. With that in tow and me having google mapped where we needed to go, but thanks to the trusty pocket wifi I rented via Rental Wifi  we had connectability anywhere at any time. We would probably still be lost in Japan without it. From Shibuya Station it took around 30mins to reach Hamamatsucho Station where the bus station for tours also left. So we followed the signs to the bus terminal and went to the friendly staff at SUNRISE TOURS. 

We signed in and got our tour stickers and waited for the tour to leave at 9am. Whilst we were waiting to board the tour bus I oogled at the countless number of vending machines, all with different kinds of drinks. Trying the vending machine was definitely apart of my agenda, but unfortunately I didn't go too crazy and bought water. 

Finally it was time to board and it was a very comfortable coach....with....WIFI! Which was helpful when I just needed to send my bf a quick message but for the most part (apart from when I fell asleep for a few mins) I looked out on the scenery and appreciated the different landscape, architecture, culture and way of life. Seeing the mountains, Japanese cemeteries and rice fields it was incredible. I took in everything, the difference in houses and landscape was eye opening.

The coach ride was very smooth, it took around 2 hours into the ride until some of us caught a glimpse of Mt Fuji in front of us. It was amazingly glorious! At first we didn't see it as it base and outline was covered by the haze but when we looked up a bit our eyes met the snow capped top. And it was better than all the photos I've seen. 

Sometimes you forget how big Mountains are. In case anyone didn't know, Mt Fuji is a Volcano, an active one at that. It hasn't erupted in about 300 years and hopefully doesn't erupt again for a very long time. After seeing that first glimpse, it took another hour until we got to the 5th Station on Mt Fuji. It definitely wasn't what I expected, I didn't google or have seen any photos of the station on the mountain. It was like a mini town, a few shops, a cafe, shrine, pony rides, it even has a post office. Also there were a lot of people. It being Golden Week there were also a lot of Japanese locals having a day out with the family, so we had so dodge a lot of selfie sticks and accidentally walking in front a lot of family photos..Oops. 

Because we now had some free time to wander around we took some obligatory photos in front of Mt Fuji.