Tag: Yamanashi Prefecture

Mt. Fuji Camping Day #1

.Reading time 7 minutes.

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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Dangozaka Service Area in Yamanashi

.Reading time 9 minutes.

We stopped by Dangozaka Service Area in Yamanashi Prefecture on a recent weekend camping trip to Lake Motosu. We had just sat through a brutal two hours of traffic and were looking to take a break. The Service Are was really big. There were a ton of car parking spots, a separate row for trucks, […]

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Kouan Camping Ground in Yamanashi

.Reading time 9 minutes.

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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