The Nozawa Onsen Dosojin Fire Festival is on Friday 15 January 2027. For 2026, entry tickets went only to villagers and village guests; the 2027 rules were not out on 11 October 2026. The 2026 timetable, the rules and the train and bus from Tokyo.
Five Hakuba resorts list terrain parks (2026-27 dates pending), five have backcountry gates, and the 2026-27 valley pass is ¥11,100 a day. Which resort suits which snowboarder, resort-issued ticket prices, rental and English lessons, and the bus from Nagano.
Compare Fujikyu's main visitor passes, check the cost of stopovers, and decide whether separate train or bus fares are cheaper for your route. The ¥2,400 1-Day Free Pass is valid for one day; an Otsuki–Kawaguchiko return is ¥2,340 by paper ticket or ¥2,322 by IC card.
Eleven day-trip baths around Mt Fuji, checked on their official pages on 7 October 2026. Two are on extended closures, and Izumi no Yu was also closed that day for its regular Wednesday break. Compare Mt Fuji views, tattoo rules, prices, towels and car-free routes.
Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji is really 46 prints, and five are titled after Kai Province (Kōshū), today's Yamanashi. Where each view is now, the three Kai titles in Hiroshige's 1858 set, and where to see real prints in Japan this autumn.
The shrine at the foot of Mt Fuji's Yoshida Trail and element 1-6 of the Fuji World Heritage property: the great torii, the halls Fuji-kō donations rebuilt from 1736, who the Fuji-kō were, the walk to Nakanochaya and Umagaeshi, and how to get there, with my snowy photos from March 2025.
Momiji (紅葉) means the red and yellow leaves of autumn and, by extension, the maple. Where the word comes from, how it differs from kaede, the maple poems of the Hyakunin Isshu, hanafuda's deer and the slang word shikato, and the difference between Lake Kawaguchi's Momiji Corridor and Momiji Tunnel.
Haneda's direct bus to Kawaguchiko costs ¥3,300 and Narita's ¥6,000, and each airport lists only two a day. The times, the Shinjuku routes, the last scheduled connections of the night and the buses back to each airport.
Compare Shima, Nuruyu, Kakuma, Iwase Yumoto and Dai: published day-bathing information, routes without a car, and the access questions to confirm with an inn before you travel.
A national-team training park in Fujiyoshida - sprint camps 2001-2012, the 2018 relay squad, France rugby 2019 - that turns into an empty maple park every November.
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