First day in Japan

Ah, Tokyo... First glance it is an incredibly clean and slightly expensive city. Today being our first day here we decided that since the weather reports were showing it to be the sunniest day that we would have, we would head up to see Mount Fuji.
We took the Shinkansen train straight out of Tokyo, this is the Bullet train that runs throughout the country at speeds up to 300 km/hr.
We are also lucky in that Japan is having a slightly early spring and that means the arrival of the plum and cherry blossoms. We stopped at a park that provided some great views of Mt. Fuji and toured around for a little while. The main road up to mountain is still closed for the winter, so that was as close as we could go.

After such a trip we did the only thing one should do - sushi. Just a quick snack before we head out to a full dinner later, but this was delicious and some of the biggest pieces of fish that we had ever seen....