Bus Tour - Kawazu Sakura

My third bus tour~ :D

And this time, we departed from Shinjuku to Izu!

Right before stopping at the first rest house, we got to see Mount Fuji and got super excited. 

Little did we know that once we've stopped, Mount Fuji would just be right behind the bus.

First stop was a strawberry farm where we got to eat as many strawberries as we can!

Look at how big the strawberries are~ I'm super happy that they're big and sweet!

Another Mount Fuji view point~!!!!

As we all wanted to stop by a nanohana patch to pick some to bring home, I managed to get Mount Fuji with nanohana together~!

Lunch bento was provided in this tour and we got this fish bento.

The bento had rice topped with fish flakes and some chikuwa.

Next stop was a ume garden.

A huge ume garden!!! 

Not sure how it happened, but this picture happen to have this light thingy and I thought that it looked pretty.

The cute Hello Kitty sticker on our shirt is to identify that we're from the same bus.

Tt would be better if we had about 10-15 more minutes so that it wouldn't be so rushed.

After that, we headed to Kawazu for their famous Kawazu sakura which bloomed earlier than the most common Sonmeiyoshino.

The petals are pink! Love how pretty they looked~

They petals also don't fall off as easily.

I actually like these more than the white ones.

  

There's a path for us to walk down to the river.

And it's super pretty there.

So glad that we made this trip here.

While there were many tourists there, we still managed to snap some pretty good shots. :D

Before returning to the bus, we decided to get some snacks because it would be a long ride back.

We had some sweet potatoes and grilled squid which were delicious. We thought the these would be sufficient to last us till we arrive in Shinjuku at about 7pm plus for dinner but we were wrong!!!!

Due to the horrible traffic, our bus for stuck in a bad jam!

Thankfully, we brought some snacks with us and we did eventually arrive at a rest hour for a toilet break. But everything else at that rest house was completely closed so we couldn't buy any food. Luckily, there were some vending machines which allowed us to get some hot drinks to last us till we arrived at the next rest house which still had a convenient store open!

That's where we bought dinner. We had some chicken nuggets, prawn gratin and a sandwich.

There were many people from other tour buses buying food there too!

I've never been that happy to see a convenient store till now as we only arrived back in Shinjuku are about 10.30pm. I would've starved to death by then.

But overall, I had a lot of fun and I will go on another bus tour!

 The traffic was unavoidable as it was the weekend and many people wanted to visit the same spot too. It's just very convenient to travel with a bus company~