Mount Fuji

Hi ,
Planning to climb Mount Fuji in mid July, have 7 days.
Can anyone give me any information, any hostels around ? Do i need visa ( have british passport)?
Trains ? Can i book train before arriving
Thanks for help in advance
Ali

You don't need a visa, but you will need decent footwear and warm clothes. It gets very cold at the top of the mountain! There is bus service, but from where are you coming?

Oh, here's a link to a site that has info on Mt Fuji, plus I think there's bus/transport info there as well.

We stayed in Sunnide on shores of Lake Kawaguchi a few weeks ago.

We took a Japanese style room, which was really nice and had an amazing view of the Mt. Fuji. One of the highlights of the trip was waking at 5am to see our window filled with Fuji set against a crystal clear sky. The staff are also really friendly and they provide free pick up from train/bus station (15 mins away).

We came from Kyoto which took some time and effort but its only 1.5 hours(ish) by bus from Shinjuku Station in Tokyo you can also get connecting trains but takes bit longer.

It wasn't climbing season when we were there but it seems to be used as a base for climbers and the you can get a bus from town to 5th station.

Links might help!

http://www.sunnide.com/<BR><BR>Can also book via hostelworld (can't post link for some reason)

Fuji is highly overrated...

Fuji is cool do once but remember it is really a two day trek if you take public transportation. There just is no way to get there by bus climb it and come back down in time for the bus on the same day.

Almost everyone goes for the sunrise so making it a two day is not a big deal.

I wrote a pretty comprehensive webpage on climbing it. It's got the what to bring, hows bus time table etc. Timetable is old but you'll get the idea of a schedule.

Mt Fuji Climb