Japan Weekend Car Camping Day #2 Lake Motosu to Mito Via Fujiyoshida

Check out time was 10:00 am. We got up around 8:00. We cooked some potatoes, eggs, and left over meat for our breakfast burritos. We splurged and even added avocado slices. We then cleaned up a bit and started to pack the cars. We left around 9:55 and were able to make it back to […]

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Mt. Fuji Camping Day #1

We took a weekend camping trip to Lake Motosu in Yamanashi Prefecture. We left around 6:00 in the morning. We had largely packed the night before and only had to move everything to the car. We recently purchased these heavy duty storage containers from Muji. They were super durable, had good storage capacity, and could […]

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Kouan Camping Ground in Yamanashi

We wanted to do some camping before it got too cold out. We coordinated with some friends and decided on the Fuji five lakes area. After doing a bit of research we learned that this area and Lake Motosu in particular had been immortalized on the back of the ¥1000 note. We knew that this […]

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