There is a Mt Fuji Information Centre at the bottom that we went to, and a little village close by with great views of it, and then we went up to Station 4. We were supposed to go higher, to Station 5, but it had been a very late winter and there was too much snow on the roads.
The view from the little village.
Not a very good shot, but this village had pools of water from Mt Fuji springs. They had a pump to fill your water bottles, and it was delicious.
This is one of the wells fed from the spring. It is 8m deep, and so clear you could see the coins clearly at the bottom.
This is also in the village. It is a quirky Japanese tradition to decorate walls of buildings with dried corn cobs.
This is at Station 4 on Mount Fuji. There was still a lot of snow on the mountain but just ice in the carpark. As you can see, it was foggy and freezing and we had no view... but we were all still happy to be on Mount Fuji!
How glad was I to have taken a coat with me?! The wind was freezing!
I thought all the little Mt Fuji cakes and biscuits and lollies were so funny! This is a box of little cakes.
Mt Fuji biscuits
And more cakes or biscuits or something!
Another view... it looked spectacular but none of us could take a good photo of it from here.
Some of our group lined up with cameras, trying in vain for a great shot.
This is the photo we all wanted to take! Unfortunately we just had to make do with taking a photo of a poster, as not a lot of cherry blossoms were out by then.
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