Hiking is a quite popular activity in Japan, not only among senior citizens. It also goes nicely with obsessive picture-taking. A train ride of about one hour takes you out of Tokyo (in this case to Kofu) and into the mountains. Citibank has a walking club which is basically for employees (like Cissy), but as a holder of shares, accounts and recently also a Spouse VISA Gold Card, I feel entitled to come along once in a while. The club also has a budget for the expensive one-hour taxi rides necessary to get you from the station to the mouth of less accessible mountains (poor accessibility does not protect mountains from being crowded, though). We started at about 1400 metres above sea level and reached the top (2057 m) of Mt. Kushigata after a pleasant hike through nice green woods in perfect weather. Just as the walking club schedule claimed there was iris growing gregariously around the top.