Mt. Fuji

　　Reaching Hakone with my sports car and viewing Mt. Fuji, I wasn't able to resist the temptation to drive my car up to Mt. Fuji. You can climb up to the altitude of 2305 meters of Mt. Fuji by car, where a vast parking area is provided.
　　The road to the 2305 meters' altitude is called "Fuji Subaruline", the entrance of which is shown in the following picture. You can see a part of Mt. Fuji over its toll gate. I used a public toilet there, because I didn't want to use toilets up the mountain, when a sightseeing bus passed by me. An attendant spat out, "Almost all the passengers of buses are Chinese." I discovered his intense aversion. He told me additionally that the weather was not so good, and  visitors weren't allowed to climb up above the altitude of 2020 meters. However, I went up to the 2020 meters' Osawa Parking and Viewing Point.
　　The temperature was 7.5 degrees centigrade at the parking of the altitude of 2020 meters. I forgot to write about the attitude of Chinese tourists in the grounds of Hakone Shrine in the last entry, though. I was really angry at their arrogance toward the Japanese cultural assets. They were alike at Mt. Fuji. I just wanted them not to throw trash away around there. Seeing them, I engraved an old proverb in my mind - When in Rome, do as the Romans do. I'm planning to visit the Islamic country of Malaysia at the end of August and I've never been to a Muslim Nation. I'm going to learn how to respect to Malaysian culture.
　　Some Chinese took their own snapshots with one hand resting on my car's fender. If they shot themselves with my car a little apart, I wouldn't mind that, but I asked them not to touch my car. However, I got uneasy then, thinking that they might do something bad to my car after I left my car, and I stayed around my car and didn't stand on the observatory terrace. A dense fog obstructed the view then and it was a consolation. If the weather had been clear and I wasn't able to see the scenery, I would bear a severe grudge against them.

（北海道・東北旅行記　４月１日）

　箱根まで来て、富士山を眺めて、乗ってきているのがこの車なら富士山へ登らずにおれようか。ということで、昴ライン入り口までやって来た。
　スバルライン入り口横で公衆トイレを使った。山の上でトイレを使わなくて済むように。そのとき、目の前を一台のバスが通り過ぎた。料金所のスタッフによるとバスで来る人はみな中国人だという。今日は天候が悪く５合目ではなく途中の大沢駐車場までしか行けない。今日は景色は見えないだろうということだったがここまで来たので登ってみた。
　大沢駐車場。気温は７．５℃。先の記事で書き忘れたのだが、神聖な箱根神社での支那人達の傍若無人な態度に酷く腹がたった。富士山でも同様で、日本にお金を落とすとは言うものの、支那人達に日本に来てもらいたくない。心底そう思った。この夏にマレーシア旅行を計画している。多民族国家、イスラム教の国。礼を失しないよう十分に心を配って観光しなければと肝に銘じた。
　この駐車場でも僕の車のフェンダーに手を突いて記念写真を撮る支那人がいた。少し離れて撮るならまあいいかとも思うが、一言注意させてもらった。しかし、その後、車に何かされるかもと心配になり、車から離れられないはめに、、、(^_^;)　まあ、景色は写真の通りで何も見えないから実害は無かったのだが、、。