Mount Fuji is an icon. It is the highest mountain in Japan at 3,776 metres and situated about 100 kilometres southwest of Tokyo. It is a sacred mountain and has been a pilgrimage site for centuries. The profile is very famous and even in summer some snow remains on its peak. It is a dormant, but not extinct volcano, and the last eruption was in 1707.
Apart from being in Tokyo for my business meetings and seeing the sakura trees in full bloom, we also had a couple of days around Mount Fuji. The first day was very hazy. It was yellow sand from China that had blown across the China Sea and made the sky very hazy. We stayed at Lake Kawaguchi on the north side of Mount Fuji. The image above was the view from our hotel.
Our Japanese business partners, Solasia, arranged for a driver/guide to take us around the area seeing Mount Fuji from many different angles.
At Oshino, near lake Yamanaka, we visited a shrine, the Eight Seas of Oshino, or rather the eight ponds of Oshino.
At Fujiyoshida we visited another shrine. The gateposts as well as the tall pine trees bordering the pathway to the shrine were impressive.
