Mt.Fuji travel guide (modified prince route: Houei-zan crater & Mt.Fuji peak at once) 2022 day2-1

Mt.Fuji travel guide (modified prince route: Houei-zan crater & Mt.Fuji peak, “Osuna-bashiri” at once) 2022 day2-1

Mt.Fuji is only available in the summer season (middle of July~ middle of September).
It takes a whole 2 days to climb up to the peak. (One day plan is too hard & difficult to access by public transport. It might be possible only for fully equipped and well-trained young people only.)

Mt.Fuji has 3 major places or entertainments. 1st one is the Kengamine peak (the top of Mt.Fuji), 2nd one is Houei-zan peak and crater (minor but interesting peak and crater stands in the middle of Mt.Fuji), 3rd one is “Osuna-bashiri”(running down the mountain with extreme speed on a fluffy gravel covered slope).
In this video, you can see how to achieve those 3 major points in 1 trip. If you clear this course, you can say “I’ve cleared Mt.Fuji mostly”.

The route I chose is called “Prince route”. Prince route is a mixture of “Fujinomiya route” & “Gotemba route” taking good points of these 2 routes.

(Accending Prince route)
Start from Fujinomiya-5th trail station, and Climb up “Fujinomiya route” to Houeizan crater and peak. Then switch to “Gotemba route” and keep this track until the Kengamine peak.

(Descending Prince route)
Climb down “Gotemba route” from the peak to Gotemba-5th trail station.

(Descending route of this video)
I modified Ordinary descending “Prince route” a little bit.
Climb down “Fujinomiya route” from the peak to mountain cabin Ikeda-kan.Then traverse to “Gotemba route” and keep this track until Gotemba-5th trail station.

This video is about Day2-1
The Sunrise from Mt.Fuji
Breakfast of Moutain cabin Akaiwa-8-gou-kan
Mt.Fuji peak crater
Ohachi-meguri (walking through the edge of the Mt.Fuji peak crater, and visiting important spots around the crater)”.
Kengamine peak (3776m height)

0:00 intro
0:41 The Sunrise from Mt.Fuji
1:19 Breakfast & picture of the emperor in young days
1:41 Departure of 2 day
3:02 arriving at the edge of Mt.Fuji peak crater
4:16 Start of Ohachi-meguri
7:34 Hakusan-dake peak (second highest point of Mt.Fuji peak crater)
8:33 Mannnen-yuki (Snow which doesn’t melt throughout the year)
9:28 Kengamine peak (highest point of Mt.Fuji: 3776m)
10:55 Heavy machineries are active on the Mt.Fuji peak
12:01 Sengen-taisha-okumiya shrine and PEAK post office
12:28 Goal of Ohachi-meguri
13:16 Heading for Fujinomiya trail way

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