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Last night at about 8:30 or 9PM we started to climb Mt. Fuji. It was considerably colder there, so we changed into jackets and shorts for probably the first time in Japan for a lot of us. We started from Mt. Fuji's 5th station, the highest up you can drive. From there it was still 5 hours of hiking up a mountain to reach the peak.

In the morning we woke up and the teachers were there to see us off when we left Nishikawa Heights, hope we see them again. We took the bus from KIT to Kanazawa Station, activated our rail passes (free Japanese Rail trains anywhere in the country for 2 weeks) , and then went to Tokyo station. Instead of going straight to Yokohama like I planed for, Trevor talked me and Xander into going to Mt. Fuji with everyone else. So from Tokyo station we called our hostel in Yokohama to cancel that day.

Things are winding down now here at KIT, only one week left to go. Because of that, we're starting to be thinking more about our travel plans after the program. A few of us are going to a music festival called Nano-Mugen. It's a two day music festival featuring Japanese and English bands in Yokohama, near Tokyo, that I believe the band Asian Kung-Fu Generation started. That band is basically the only Japanese music I know, and I only know it because Xander showed it to me before we left for Japan.