Japan is widely regarded as a winter sports destination, but what people fail to realize is that during the summer those same mountains offer some incredible hiking opportunities. My mission? To traverse the entirety of the Japanese Alps from Niigata to Shizuoka.
Hiking in Japan can be like hiking elsewhere, except sometimes it’s not. My experience hiking in Japan has taught me a lot about the country…
Mount Fuji is Japan’s highest mountain – and it’s also a huge disappointment. There is nothing about the place that inspires a feeling of being in nature.
At 12,388 feet (3,776 m) Mount Fuji, or Fuji-san, claims the prize of “tallest mountain in Japan”. And I’m going to poop on it. Most…
