This is the view of Mt. Fuji after some serious zoom work and a nice crop from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

Just kidding. I would say something similar while heading south on the Golden Gate Bridge (天気がよければ右手の方によく見ると富士山が見えるでしょう) when I was a tour guide in San Francisco for a Japanese company. You’d be surprised how many customers I had who actually looked hard out the window to the west before I told them I was just joking.

Actually, this is from Lake Ashi (芦ノ湖) near Hakone. My camera was at only 35mm and there was no crop so you can see how impressive Fuji San is from this neck of the woods. We were tailing a boat very similar to the one we were on.

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