Mount Fuji Journey

A great weekend indeed... Here is my journey to the famous Mount Fuji... With original plan was to go with friends and climbing from 5th Station of mount fuji at altitude of 2300meter.. unfortunately, with raining and unstable weather forecast, the trip was cancelled. This allowed me to change my plan and started from 1st station at 1450m. With last minute plan, i decided to go on very early morning of saturday. My journey started from Tsurumi, the place i staying, to the town of fujiyoshida with some trains...

Here is the "tough“ fuji kyukou train that bring me to the town of fujiyoshida..

The entrance of the yoshida trail at the town of fujiyoshida, altitude of 850m

I've decided not to take the bus to the 5th station, instead, i took another "bus" to the 1st station at altitude of 1450m, 30 mins from fujiyoshida town. At first, i was expecting a BUS, you know, it's climbing season in August! oh my God, when i saw my "bus", it was not a bus! it was a van! i guess there was very very less people start climbing from 1st station. In the van, there were 4 human included me. 1 was the driver, 2nd was a granny who staying there... 3rd was a young guy who seems to stay there too.. the last one was me... the van took us to a place named "umagaeshi", the starting point of 1st station, i was the only climber in that van.. hooray, climbing alone...

the first station! it was raining heavily, without hesitation, i started my journey in the lonely forest without doing warm up because i lazy as it was raining heavily... after a while, i realized i've injured my left leg, shit.... so for the whole journey i was carrying the injury to the top.. after 1 hours and 50mins climb and nearly lost in the middle of nowhere in one place, i've reached 5th station! at 2300m. gonna rest for a few hours before continue and to dry my clothes.

So for the next few hours, i was resting and eating energy bar. In the whole journey, from bottom to top of the mountain, i've eaten 2 kitkat chocolate bars and 7 soyjoy fruits bars and 1.5liter of isotonic drinks... nothing else, so while waiting, i took some photos

After having enough rest, i started my journey again from 7.15pm, from 2300m til 3775m. Some parts were tough and some parts of the mountain were easy. There were lot's of people and traffic jam when i started to climb. But without much rests, i decided to climb as fast as possible to grab a good place to see sunrise at the top of the mountain. Hence, i tried my best and finally reached 8.5 station! here it was! the critical point! i've decided to climb continuously until the top without stopping at 9th station, this allowed me to pass lot's of people and finally, when i reached there, i was one of the first few and managed to grab the last available front row seat at the edge of the mountain! great! but i've to sit down and wait for 3 hours before sunrise at temperature of 5 degree celcius... very very cold...

It was cloudy sky so not able to see the sun but the whole journey was satisfying.. =D

My check point time at every station!

oh! I love you my beloved slipper from Malaysia! climb to the top by wearing this! a little bit cold at 5 celcius but it made a huge contribution in my journey =D