When I drove up to the Otome pass before nine, I could see the top of Mt. Fuji fairly well through light moistures. But I could not see the mountain again after that throughout the day.

I drove down the Tomeri super highway from Gotemba to Numazu and then to Tohi town on the west coast of Izu peninsula to eat fresh fish. The car navigator on my Prius guided me there smoothly and safely. I went down to the pier to reserve a ferry boat to Tagonoura and bought a ticket. The ticket office recommended me to eat fishes at a restaurant on the second floor of their building. They served me a roasted sea bream which was dried a half under the sun from early this morning. They also made a cup of miso soup with crab legs and also a dish of sashimi, such as bonito, sea bream, cuttlefish and scallop. The added a cup of vinegar radish. They were delicious. It was really worth of my efforts for coming down here. A few persons were taking lessons of sea skiing and some otheres were fishing at the pier (armatures were getting small fishes.) A horde of big buses came here with many group tour passengers by the departure time of ferry. The boat run on the surface of sea smoothly to Tagonoura. It took fifty five minutes to get there. I could see the top of Mr. Fuji vaguely on the front sky of boat but could not take its picture. The I drove up to the Fuji inter change of Tomei super express way. I could get back to Hakone by two thirty.

Mountains surrounding Sengokuhara started to be colored. I could see a beautiful sunset after weeks.

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