Mt Fuji

We arrive to the country house and wow wow wow I'm sooooo gobsmacked by the view.

The location is truly beautiful,  the A framed cottage sitting on 500m / 2 of land and is bordered on 3 sides by tall pine trees and its oh so peaceful. The smell in the air is sweet and moist. We are on the edge of a little farming community and town as well as in an area for Japanese retirees to have little places in the country to escape the 20 + million people of Tokyo and the hectic city life 250 km down the hill. Life up here is at a very slow pace, and the temperature is a good 15 deg cooler and as it was 39 deg on the freeway in Yokahama it is a relief to be  back to 24 degs here and it will get down to 16 over night.

We make our way from the car to the front timber deck and turn around to see the view " spectacular " and it is one of the best locations  in this area to see Mt Fuji, she looks like a postcard all in haze of pastel pinks and soft blue. We can see her sitting ever so proud over the small paddock of spring veggies that are growing  just across the little lane in front of the cottage. It may be summer in the city's below but it is certainly still spring up here.

Mt Fuji looks like it is cut in 1/2 as it is so high that the top 1/3 sticks out above the band of cloud cover. So all those misty pastel pictures of the mount that I have seen are actually true to how she really does looks and we will be waking up to that view every morning while we are up here.

Sooooo cool is all I can say! !! And how privilege we are to be here.