After spending time in the big city we headed for the countryside in search of Mt Fuji. Kawaguchiko is the city at the base of Mt Fuji, and on a clear day you can see the grand mountain itself. Unfortunately when we arrived in Kawaguchiko Fuji-san was covered in clouds. Despite this fact, once we were settled into our very cute hostel "K's House", we headed up the cable car for a bird's eye view of the town.
At the top we could see the nearby coasterpark, Fuji-Q, and the beautiful town surrounding the lake. The town had a relaxed feel to it and we enjoyed walking around soaking it all up.
As time became more limited we had to make a hard decision...climb Mt Fuji (to station 6) or go to the coasterpark? After a long hard think and deep discussion we decided on the latter!!! We are suckers for excitement! So, we boarded the bus and took the trip to Fuji-Q. It was surprisingly busy but that didn't faze us...hey we just got back from the Disney worlds!!! First we headed up the sky eye to take a good look around and see what the park had to offer. All up there are three coasters, all insanely scary! The first one is the tallest coaster in the world with a 70m drop, the next one has a pin head up and down part and the third one has a 90 degree drop! The park also had paddle boats and other assorted amusement park rides.
We headed straight to the tallest coaster in the world, and after lining up for an hour, had an exhilarating ride! There were about 5 stomach-tingling drops and lots of twists and tight turns. It was lots of fun. We then went to ride the one with the pin drop but were told that the operators were out to lunch!!!! So we went on a few other rides and wandered around the park. One ride which cooled us down a bit was called the Tsunami (a very appropriate name!). We both bought a sexy blue poncho to wear as we saw many people who didn't wear the poncho come off the ride drenched through to the skin. This ride was a small boat that travelled up a ramp, did a 180 at the top and came speeding down the hill at great speed into a pool of water. The view from the inside as you dive into the water is quite spectacular but then it all folds in and comes crashing on top of you! I had a wading pool in my lap and my hair had a second rinse! 
To our delight we could actually see Mt Fuji in the back ground, with clouds creeping in from the left. We were happy that we could at least see it for ourselves and take a few piccies. Despite the Japanese people claiming that the top is always covered in snow, it looked very black. After being inside the night before listening to and watching a spectacular thunder and lightning storm we were happy not to climb it after all. Well, we have to leave something to come back again to do!!!