Mount Fuji, worth knowing.

Fun facts about Mount Fuji

1. 1At Fuji-Q Highland, at the foot of Mount Fuji, the Takabisha roller coaster drops at 121 degrees. That's steeper than straight down.Source: japan-guide.com; Wikipedia
2. 2In Hakone's steaming Owakudani valley, eggs are boiled in volcanic hot-spring pools until their shells turn jet black. Crack one open and inside it's a classic hard-boiled egg.Source: Owakudani Kurotamago-kan; japan-guide.com
3. 3Around the Fuji lakes the comfort food is hoto: thick, flat noodles stewed straight into a bubbling iron pot of miso soup with pumpkin. Legend says samurai ate it before battle.Source: japan-guide.com; Wikipedia
4. 4Fujiyoshida's Yoshida udon is famously firm and chewy, topped with cabbage and sweet-simmered horse meat. The story goes that men kneaded it hard for the town's women weavers.Source: Fujiyoshida City Tourism; Wikipedia
5. 5You can loop Hakone by mountain train, cable car, a ropeway gliding over a steaming volcanic valley, and a boat across a crater lake with Fuji in view.Source: japan-guide.com; Wikipedia

Things to do in Mount Fuji

• ◦Chureito Pagoda: climb the steps up through Arakurayama Sengen Park in Fujiyoshida for the classic shot of a five-storey pagoda with Mount Fuji behind it.Source: japan-guide.com; Wikipedia
• ◦Oshino Hakkai is a village of eight spring-fed ponds, filled by Mount Fuji's water rising up through layers of lava, and the water is famously clear.Source: japan-guide.com; Wikipedia
• ◦Lake Kawaguchiko is the easy-to-reach Fuji lake: excursion boats, lakeside hot springs and Fuji across the water, especially lovely in cherry blossom season and autumn colour.Source: japan-guide.com; Wikipedia
• ◦The Hakone Open-Air Museum scatters about 120 sculptures across mountain lawns, with a Picasso pavilion and a stained-glass tower you can climb inside.Source: The Hakone Open-Air Museum; japan-guide.com
• ◦Cross Lake Ashi on a sightseeing boat styled as a pirate ship, sailing between Hakone's lakeside towns with Mount Fuji peeking over the hills on a clear day.Source: japan-guide.com; Wikipedia
• ◦At Saiko Iyashi no Sato, a village of thatched-roof farmhouses by Lake Saiko, drop into a craft workshop and make something to take home.Source: japan-guide.com; Wikipedia

Questions to bring to Mount Fuji

From Sojourn's journeys. Ask one over a long dinner or on a slow walk, and let the place do some of the work.

Going together

• When do you feel most like yourself?
• What does rest actually look like for you?
• What is one thing you wish we did more of?

Going solo

• What is the first thing this place is showing you that you didn't expect?
• What does this version of you know that the home version tends to forget?

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