Date: 3rd April 2025

Today, I took three guests from the United States, who we had guided around Tokyo until the day before yesterday, to the popular spots around Mt. Fuji. We left the hotel in a one-box wagon with a driver and headed straight for Arakurayama Sengen Park. In good weather, it is a super popular spot where we can see cherry blossoms, the five-story pagoda of Chureito, and Mt. Fuji all at once. Unfortunately, it has been raining since morning, so there is little chance of seeing Mt. Fuji, but we would move according to the schedule planned by the travel agency. We could not enter the parking lot near the Arakurayama Sengen Park with our hired car, so we asked the driver of the hire car to drive as close as possible and wait there.

After that, we headed to the observation deck on the Kawaguchiko Mt. Fuji Panorama Ropeway, but we still couldn’t see Mt. Fuji. We ate the specialty hoto noodle at a restaurant by the lake and went to Oshino Hakkai. The weather improved a little, so we took a walk around the beautiful spring water, and then I dropped them off at the hotel in Hakone, and today’s mission was over.

This tour was arranged by a Japanese travel agency.