After a busy day we relaxed in our hotel and shared a bottle of wine, (or 2)!
After an hour or 2 we were off to bed and looking forward to a couple of days exploring the area.
At about 04.10 I woke up and had to visit the bathroom. A couple of minutes later I was back on my Japanese futon and snuggling down for another couple of hours sleep.
As I tried to relax a strange feeling came over me. The room started to shake, the windows rattled in their frames and I thought that the glass was going to break.
The sliding doors separating the sleeping area from the bathroom started to slide back and forth.
Oh F*** I thought! Too much wine!
But no, Earthquake!
As soon as I realised what was happening it was all over. I had downloaded the Japanese safety app of what to do in the event of an earthquake or tsunami and couldn’t remember what it said.
Anyway I am sure it said something like finish that glass of wine you poured last night to calm your nerves, so I did and was soon asleep again.
In the morning I looked at the earthquake app and it said it was a large quake of magnitude 5.4, centred just south of Tokyo and felt for a wide area.
Luckily there were only a few serious injuries reported and at the same time there was another 5.2 magnitude quake in japan and a much larger one offshore in the Pacific ocean.
So on we went with our holiday and to tomorrow I will take you around Mount Fuji and the surrounding area.
TTFN
Bibbley
Uncle Bob's Scenic Tours 
Was the wine any good ? Our new said somewhere in Japan the earthquake was 8.4 on the scale
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Wine is good, and cheap. Beer good. The quake was centred south of Tokyo so would have been much worse if we had still been there.
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Well was woke up by the earthquake, and must admit very scary, lets hope we don’t get any more
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