The Ultimate Travel Guide To Mt Fuji Five Lakes – Kawaguchi

Is seeing Mt Fuji on your bucket list? Then you should make Fuji Five Lakes a part of your Japan Itinerary. In this Mt Fuji Five Lakes travel guide, we give you the top sights, the best places to see Mount Fuji (and photograph it), when to go including special festivals, as well as our recommendations for where to stay in Fuji Five Lakes – especially Lake Kawaguchiko. 

Mount Fuji is Japan’s most famous and iconic mountain. We have been to Japan several times but due to the overcast and rainy weather that so often obscures the mountain during the summer months, we had never actually seen Mt Fuji clearly. So on this winter trip to Japan in December, we really wanted to cross it off our bucket list.

We decided that staying around the scenic Lake Kawaguchi in the Fuji Five Lakes area would give us the best chance of seeing Mt Fuji. As we arrived at our hotel late in the evening, the sun had set, and we could see no signs of the mountain across the lake. After a late dinner and a…