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No visitor to Japan can say that he has been to Japan but never got to see Japan’s most revered mountain whom the Japanese fondly call Mt. Fuji-san.

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Before returning to Cebu this weekend, I’m off for a four-hour Shinkansen train ride to the City of Hiroshima and taking the last train ride back to Shinjuku in Tokyo.

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