But it was really really easy. And I really only climbed half because I took a chairlift halfway. Irregardless the view was amazing from the top, there was not a cloud in the sky. You could see all of tokyo. It was really cool. Then on the way down we stopped at a little soba restaurant that had really famous soba. I guess they go there all the time in the tv dramas. It was delicious.

Yesterday I went for a really long bike ride in koganei kouen , which the park in my town. I had been there once before but I didn’t go very far inside it because I was afraid I would get lost. This time, I felt more confident so I went all over inside it, and got tremendously lost. They had maps, but I never really found my way to the exit, I took this shady side road. Anyways, it’s sooo huge! I probably biked around there for almost 2 hours and I think I saw a little over 1/2 of it. It’s also pretty famous, people come from all over tokyo to do hang out there. I would say it’s like central park, but it’s really not downtown, and I also have no idea what central park is like. However, this park has EVERYTHING! It even has a unicylcing area for crying out loud (unicycling is popular here for little girls, but no boys for some reason pre-1850s). It also has an open air museum that re-enacts the edo period (before japan was open to the west). Apparently the town in Princess Mononoke is based on this museum. Miyazaki really like it for some reason. I have yet to go, but plan on doing it before it gets too cold. I almost have the technology to upload pictures. I forgot to install a photo editor before I left for japan so I have no way to compress them for the web. I don’t even have iPhoto =(. However, when I get this technology you can expect me to start a flicker account and put the url here right away!