Mt Takao

I went on a hiking tour of Mt Takao Saturday after Thanksgiving. Mt Takao is part of the mountain range that is just to the east of us and is in between us and Ft Fuji. We can often see Fuji peeking over this mountain range. One of the main attractions of this mountain is a Buddhist temple. The monks of this temple are the hardcore type you see in movies climbing the mountain in nothing but a loin cloth as well as sitting under the ice cold waterfalls to test their discipline. We didn't climb up the mountain in our boxers; we took the chairlift. There was still a decent hike from the temple up to the summit however. Plain and simple the summit has a great view. The hike back down was pretty cool (no chairlift on the way down) and we got to see the waterfalls where the monks do their aesthetic exercises.