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A quest to conquer Fuji San (31 May - 5 June 2024) - Day 1 and 2

A quest to conquer Fuji San.

It's one of hubby's travel wish to climb Mt Fuji at age 40 years old. At first, he wanted to go solo trip, however after second thought, I decided to accompany him for this trip as I haven't been to Kawaguchi and saw Mt Fuji eventhough we have been to Japan twice.

We booked nice hotel at Lake Kawaguchi overlooking the lake and the mountain and another hotel overlooking fuji Q theme park and Mt Fuji.

Unfortunately, the Lady Luck may not be in our side. The weather was undesirable, it's cloudy thus we couldn't see Mt Fuji clearly the past 3 days.

However, hubby has lady luck smiled ago him and he managed to see Mt Fuji from far when the climbing group drove to 5th base and he's able to climb Mt Fuji but not until the top yet as it's covered with heavy snow.

So this is our itinerary

Day 1 - 31 May 2024

Red eye flight with Scoot for 6.5 hours




Day 2 - 1 June 2024

Arrived in the morning at Narita airport, rented the car and drove for 3 hours to Kawaguchiko.




Having lunch at Soba Japanese restaurant near our place to stay.





Checked in around 2pm at La Vista Fuji Kawaguchiko and the hotel was so beautiful overlooking the lake and the Mount Fuji, unfortunately it's a cloudy day thus we only able to see the lake Kawaguchiko.





We planned to see Mt Fuji from other parts so we went to have gelato ice cream and went around Lake kawaguchiko, but it's no avail.



Then, we drove further down to Lake Yamanaka and ate fluffy pancake hoping that Mt Fuji smiled at us, unfortunately it's no avail either.






So we decided to go back to hotel and had a good night sleep hoping tomorrow is another good day


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