We picked up our tickets and voucher for the tour with Destination Asia from Tokyo to Mt Fuji. Flight Centre have been quite good as travel agents go.
Sacred-destinations -japan/mount-fuji
We'll travel by subway from our Ryokan in Asakusa to our pickup hotel as they're the expensive hotels on the west side near Ginza. The tour is all day on our Day 2. We come back to Tokyo on the Shinkansen -Bullet train.
As we travel around Japan we intend to use the WiFi and intenet provided by the hotels, fast food places and convenience stores with the ASUS Transformer Prime tablet, that we bought a month ago. Well that was the plan, until yesterday, when it wouldn't power up, despite having a full battery. Somewhere along the line we have had, we suspect, "Early-life failure". Anyway the ASUS Call Centre requested that we send it to their Service Centre in Silverwater Sydney for the technicians to check. We will see if we get it back in time, have to buy a new one or have a "Plan B"
Himeji: I have been in touch with the Sister City secretariat at the Adelaide City Council and they have put us in touch with the Himeji Prefectural Office and so we will make a personal visit and reinforce the sister city relationship that Adelaide has with Himeji.
You may not be aware that the Adelaide -Himeji-gardens were a gift in 1982 to commemorate the link between Himeji and Adelaide:
We love this garden and hope to see similar gardens in Japan. The other big attraction is the famous castle Himeji-jo, which is currently undertaking a major renovation but is still available to visit. Trevor told me about the steps being quite high so we will try and take them in our stride :)
So as you can see we are very excited about our trip.
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