Sure the pic is blurry, but that happens when you're trying to catch something traveling at damn near 300 kilometers per hour. On our tour to Mount Fuji last Tuesday we paid an extra $30 a piece to take the bullet train back to Tokyo. Just trying to catch the thing in motion with the camera was almost worth the price of admission for me. In this pic i somehow managed to catch the train perfectly in frame. I have the reflexs of some sort of feline, i'm telling you. If i only could have held the camera steady, it would have been perfect. Unfortunately once we were inside the train it was difficult to get any sense of speed because it was already dark. The whizzing past of distant lights outside only gave a small sense of speed.

We had a pretty good day, although everything felt rushed. Our first stop on the tour was the fifth station on the mountain. Only a half hour to snap a few pics into the glaring sun and buy some overpriced souvenirs before we were heading back down to a mediocre lunch. Then it was off to Lake Ashi for a quick cruise to a cable car and another half hour on the mountain for more pics. After that the tour was pretty much over and we headed to the train. Feeling a little meh right now so i'll write more about Japan on the weekend.
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