In April, one of the managers at my company, Soumi-san, invited the company intern, Zach, and I to join him for a day trip to Shizuoka prefecture in central Japan. Shizuoka is known for its excellent views of Mt. Fuji, pleasant weather, sakura ebi (”cherry” shrimp), green tea and strawberries — and we sampled all of it.

Well, actually, make that almost all of it — despite the fact that the weather was absolutely beautiful, some haze prevented us from actually being able to see Mt. Fuji (it was on holiday that day according to Mr. Soumi). However, we were assured that the view is normally quite breathtaking. Despite that itty bitty disappointment, the rest of the day was a lot of fun.

I’ve put some photos from the trip up in the gallery, so please feel free to take a look.