"What a difference a day makes!" I thought as the Super Asuza again headed back up towards the mountains west of Tokyo. It was not yet Tachikawa, where I had hopped off yesterday, defeated by the rain, and I could already see Mount Fuji, dark grey with streaks of snow against a sky of pale white cloud and blue. This was the railway line where I had first spotted this most famous of mountains, an active (though not currently so) volcano 3776 metres high, the highest point of Japan. I was en route to another highest in Japan; the highest railway line. Surprisingly, for such a mountainous and railway dense country, the highest elevation of the Koumi Line is beaten by a quarter of a kilometre by Australia's Skitube and by over three and a half kilometres in the case of the world's highest railway, the line to Tibet. It is not just its height and near perfect conical shape that makes Mount Fuji so remarkable. It stands in isolation to the surrounding landsca...
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