Originally Posted by mad_atta
Great report - I've been wanting to go to Palau for years now. The Rock Islands just look amazing.
I'm interested that you got a bullet train to Mt Fuji - did this go to the mountain itself or just to a place with good views of it? I've been to Tokyo a couple of times but I didn't know you could do that. (I did get a great view of it from onboard our Osaka-Tokyo flight though - very cool.)
We took it to a Shin-Fuji where there was a decent view- we got some pictures and left- we didn't have the time to do the climb, and it was still much too early to do it in the season. We were told to only do the train ride if it was a clear day. We stayed at the Century Hyatt and the concierge went online to see what kind of visability there was and it was excelent, so we went. We were prepared to bag it if vis was bad- too much money for no view.