Comments on: Mount Fuji https://kenjisaito.com/mount-fuji/ Zero fox given Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:59:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: kenji SAITO https://kenjisaito.com/mount-fuji/comment-page-1/#comment-27283 Mon, 09 Jul 2018 06:34:32 +0000 http://kenjisaito.com/?p=3772#comment-27283 Aloha Andres,
Thanks! I would suggest staying at the last hut which as you mentioned, will minimize the night hike. Because they start rousting people out of their futons around 0100 to get ready for the biting cold hike at 0200 in order to make sunrise which pops up around 0430.
Hope you get some spectacular views and sunrise!
Mahalo

]]> By: Andres https://kenjisaito.com/mount-fuji/comment-page-1/#comment-27225 Fri, 06 Jul 2018 03:46:00 +0000 http://kenjisaito.com/?p=3772#comment-27225 This is such a spectacular, clear and helpful description of your experience. Congrats on both Mt. Fuji summit and such clear explanation!

My wife and I are planning the hike for this August (unfortunately, we can only do it on a Friday!) and we were wondering whether to sleep on the 7th or at the last hut past the 8th station (one named Goraikoukan). That would be mostly to minimize the night hike. The other option seems to be to go for a lodge that comes right before the 8th station (like Hokuunso, that appears in one of your pictures). From your description, it seems something in between might be the best option….

All the best!

]]> By: kenji SAITO https://kenjisaito.com/mount-fuji/comment-page-1/#comment-25061 Fri, 30 Sep 2016 15:49:32 +0000 http://kenjisaito.com/?p=3772#comment-25061 Aloha Sandy,
Thanks! Haha we get buttons but no medals for our climb. Just had to donate 1000 yen. I don’t think Mari wants to start from the start. I want to! We’ll see.
Mahalo

]]> By: Sandy mo https://kenjisaito.com/mount-fuji/comment-page-1/#comment-25060 Fri, 30 Sep 2016 15:03:45 +0000 http://kenjisaito.com/?p=3772#comment-25060 Hi Kenji & Mari
Thanks for sharing those awesome photos! You both deserve a medal for the climb again and yes I do hope you get to see that sunrise on your next climb! From the start Mari-San?

]]> By: kenji SAITO https://kenjisaito.com/mount-fuji/comment-page-1/#comment-25040 Tue, 27 Sep 2016 04:43:57 +0000 http://kenjisaito.com/?p=3772#comment-25040 Aloha Mele,
Thank you. Our first hike up Mount Fuji. No sunrise. Just storming at the summit. That’s why we came back and keep coming back. Hiking gluttons for punishment.
Mahalo

]]> By: Mele https://kenjisaito.com/mount-fuji/comment-page-1/#comment-25035 Tue, 27 Sep 2016 02:37:34 +0000 http://kenjisaito.com/?p=3772#comment-25035 Wow….what a fun experience. Thank you for sharing Mari

]]> By: kenji SAITO https://kenjisaito.com/mount-fuji/comment-page-1/#comment-22139 Fri, 23 May 2014 22:45:45 +0000 http://kenjisaito.com/?p=3772#comment-22139 Hi Catriona,
Thanks for visiting! No guide, we just went by ourselves, the trail is pretty much marked to the top. We went in July and we got lucky, it was actually cool and overcast. Usually it’s hot, but bring warm clothes and raingear as it will get very cold at the top. We saw some hikers who had hiked up only in t-shirts and they were suffering from hypothermia as a storm happened to be raging at the top. If you go during the official hiking season which runs from July to early September, the huts that dot the trail sell water and snacks at tourist prices of course, but that can lighten your load if you take that into account. Hope you have fun and get to see a beautiful sunrise!
Mahalo!

]]> By: Catriona https://kenjisaito.com/mount-fuji/comment-page-1/#comment-22137 Fri, 23 May 2014 13:57:07 +0000 http://kenjisaito.com/?p=3772#comment-22137 Hi,
Loved thus blog, thank you!! I am actually preparing to climb fuji this coming August, and I am so glad I stumbled across this blog.
Did you climb without a guide? If so, was it ok? And also, what time if year did you climb it? Thank you!

]]> By: kenji SAITO https://kenjisaito.com/mount-fuji/comment-page-1/#comment-16232 Wed, 15 Jan 2014 06:04:24 +0000 http://kenjisaito.com/?p=3772#comment-16232 HI Keith,
Thanks for the kind words! Hope you get back on your feet soon, so that you too can be a wise man! As for us, we plan to be the fools! Haha
Aloha

]]> By: Keith Doherty https://kenjisaito.com/mount-fuji/comment-page-1/#comment-16214 Tue, 14 Jan 2014 18:40:59 +0000 http://kenjisaito.com/?p=3772#comment-16214 Hi, Having spent 6 years in Japan as a ski Instructor on the north Island, I have visited many parts of this beautiful Island, but never Fuji san!!!!!!
I could not go back to Hokkido this year due to health reasons, but have a year to rehab and I plan to be a wise man!!!!!
Thanks for all the pics, congratulations!!!!
Cheers Keith

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