One Night in Tokyo: Day 5

Tonite very free + very Xianz = 1 more blog entry. Haiz. -_-"
So anyway, cut the crap short...

Day 5
Today we supposed to go Hakone. It's basically a mountainous area (aka tourist spot) which has alotta hot springs cos there is volcano nearby. And u think stoopid tourists like us actually flock to a live volcano happily without worrying about being roasted if it suddenly erupt. Oh well.
So anyway since Hakone is at the outskirts of Tokyo, it means a loooong train ride from Shinjuku train station. (*Sniff* Yes, we still had to take train to Shijuku first.) And loooong train ride = 1.5 hrs train ride. Omg. And you thought sitting won't be tiring eh?? And being a weekday and Hakone being such a far-flung, ulu-ated place, our train was practically empty:



And the train ride to Hakone from Shinjuku, plus a day-pass of all the rides there (Not it's not some shitty amusement park. Wat do we wanna go amusement parks for anyway? wtf? I'll get to the rides later.) costs 5500 yen (= S$77)!!! Rich paid for me la, cos he got to save on the Air ticket, so he owes me one. :)
Then when we reach there, we still gotta take another train to go up the mountains. Let me explain a bit. That place basically is a place for scenery, so they have different rides (train, tram, cable car, boat & bus) to let u see the different sights there. Wat a good way to earn $$. So anyway, we went on a round trip beginning with the train:



Although the train ride took a loooong 30 mins, there were some beautiful sights:



For those who dunno how to appreciate the aesthetic beauty of outdoor scenery which u'll never find in S'pore, pls stop here, now, and proceed to some other web page and forget this entry. This entry is empty, see, Ta-dah.
Then once we reached near the top (its some mountain, I forgot the cheem Jap name), we got off the train and had our lunch before taking the next ride, which is cable car. Or what they claim. Their 'cable car' is actually a diagonal tram that is being pulled up the hill by a cable. See? (Tram = car) + (pulled up by cable) = cable car. And I thought I was lame.
Then once we reached the top, then we took the real cable car (I forgot wat they called it. Some absurd name la):



From the ride we took some nice views of Mount Fuji and the active volcano we were on:



See?? There's smoke from the ground, the volcano is really live! And people still flock there.... Kaoz. Can't wait to be roasted. -_-
The cable car ride ended at the opposite foot of the volcano, where we took a ferry across the Lake Aishii:



And snapped some scenic lake-side views:



As mentioned, to those who don't appreciate natural beauty (other than chio bus), wtf are u still doing here?? Dun pour me cold water k?
At the end of the boat ride, we have to take a bus back to the train station (not Shinjuku!! That's pure lunacy!!!) which took us 40 mins. It turns out we're damn lucky, we caught the last bus! (Although it's only 5+ in the afternoon) if miss then we suck thumb stay there overnight liao. And we even thought of going hot springs for a while. But I go before la (from my last trip) and I don't like seeing naked men walking all around me.
Rich can go try when he go visit his fren in Osaka in May, then he & his fren can let it all hang out loose there. Literally.