Seeing Mt Fuji is entirely a matter of hour and position. What we book is not a ticket — it is the early morning.

The skeleton

  • Day 1 — Leave Tokyo, reach Lake Kawaguchi by afternoon; an inn on the north shore, room facing the mountain
  • Day 2 — Before sunrise, to the spot where locals watch the mountain; cherry blossoms and the lake by day; onsen at night
  • Day 3 — Half a day cycling at Lake Yamanaka; a tea room through the tour-bus hours
  • Day 4 — One last look at dawn, then back to Tokyo

House rules of this journey

Bad weather shifts the whole plan by a day (the inn is booked with slack). No crowded viewpoints.

This is the skeleton of a journey that happened exactly once. Yours will begin from a blank page.

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Tell us roughly where you want to go, and what you would rather avoid. That is where the line begins.

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