I went to Japan as a first time, solo traveller — here's how I got on

With bullet trains, bamboo forests and battered octopus, Japan is one big adventure for solo traveller Nicola Brady

Arakura Fuji Sengen Shrine, Mount Fuji. Pic: Nicola Brady

It's minus five degrees, I’m halfway up a mountain, and I’m naked. 

A snowstorm is raging, and my limbs are rapidly turning an alarming shade of pink.