Tag: Yamanashi

• Hiking: Mt. Hououzan

  

  How do you explain to someone that hasn’t hiked much in Japan than despite hiking to over 2700m, despite walking (which felt more like climbing – actual climbing – almost vertically non-stop for 6 solid hours), and despite being in the least visited of the three major mountain ranges, that the campsite would be full and there would be at least 100 other hikers on the mountain?

  Sean

  September 20, 2022

  Hiking, Japan, Japanese Alps, Minami Alps, Southern Alps

  鳳凰山, Hiking, hiking Japan, Hououzan, Japan, Lumix S5, Minami Alps, Southern Alps, Yamanashi, 山梨県

• Cycling: Mt. Fuji & the Five Lakes

  

  It’s impossible to put into words how I felt the first time I saw Mt. Fuji in all its splendor. If the weather is good and it’s the right time of year – in other words when there’s still plenty of snow on the peak – then it is simply stunning. It can of course […]

  Sean

  September 10, 2016

  Cycling

  Bike Packing, Camping, Central Japan, Cycling, cyclingjapan, Five Lakes, Fuji Panorama, fujigoko, Japan, Lake Kawaguchi, Mt. Fuji, Nagoya, Shizuoka, Yamanashi, 富士山, 富士五湖, 山中湖, 河口湖