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Mount Fuji and
4 EAST MEETS WEST
Kawaguchi-ko
MAP A2 • Express Keio bus from On July 8, 1853, Commodore Perry,
Shinjuku Station • mtfuji-jp.com hoping to open Japan to foreign trade
Sacred Fuji-san, Japan’s highest and diplomacy, sailed “black ships” into
peak, is a beautiful sight close up, Edo Bay (see p38). The ritual exchange
particularly in good weather, and the of gifts that ensued – a bronze temple
officially active volcano can be seen bell and teapot on the Japanese side, a
telegraph machine and daguerreotype
from the shores of the lakes to its camera from the visitors – showed how
north. The best lake to stay near is much progress had bypassed Japan.
Kawaguchi-ko, which has a good
range of accom modations and a cable
car to the Fuji Viewing Platform. Hakone Open-Air Museum fea tures
sculpture by the likes of Rodin and
Henry Moore. Gora is the terminus;
take the funicular and cable car to the
shore of Lake Ashi, stopping off on
the way at Owakudani volcanic valley.
Mount Takao
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MAP B2 • Keio Line from
Shinjuku Station • www.takaosan-
onsen.jp/english
Far easier than climbing Mount Fuji,
this Quasi-National park has hiking
trails as well as a cable car and chair
lifts. Near the summit is the 8th-
View of Mount Fuji over a lake century temple Yakuo-in, which hosts
a fire festival on the second Sunday in
Yokohama
5 March. The train station, designed by
Kengo Kuma, has an open-air bath
MAP B2 • Yokohama
• JR Keihin Tohoku Line from Tokyo; to relax in before or after your climb.
Minato Mirai subway from Shibuya
Edo-Tokyo Open Air
A crucial Meiji-era foreign settlement 8
and port, this city includes the Minato Architectural Museum
Mirai complex, with an amuse ment MAP B1 • 3-7-1 Sakuramachi,
park, art museum, stores, and Japan’s Koganai-shi • 042-388-3300 • Musashi
second-tallest building – the Land- Koganei, Chuo line • Open Apr–Sep:
mark Plaza. Moored nearby is a fine 9:30am–5:30pm Tue–Sat; Oct–Mar:
old clipper, the Nippon Maru. The area 9:30am–4:30pm Tue–Sun • Adm
has lots to offer visitors, including the • www.tatemonoen.jp
restaurants and shopping streets of Buildings representative of Tokyo
Chinatown, silk and doll museums, during the Edo, Meiji, and later
old customs buildings, and a lovely
Japanese garden, Sankein.
Hakone
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MAP A2 • Odakyu express bus
from Shinjuku; JR line from Tokyo;
Odakyu Line from Shinjuku
The enjoyable switchback route up
the slopes on the Hakone Tozan
Railway starts at Hakone-Yumato, a
hot-spring town. Alight at
Miyanoshita, stopping for tea at the Edo-Tokyo Open-Air Architectural
Fujiya Hotel (see p133). Farther up, the Museum

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