Early in the morning, we grouped up at Nissan rental car at Musashi Kosugi for our sakura road trip.
We arrived at Oshino Hakkai (忍野八海), which is this beautiful little village like area with beautiful sakura.
Even when we arrived early, the parking area was almost full.
I like that this place has a traditional feel to it.
This area apparently has 8 lakes, but we did not visit all of them as our main purpose was for sakura and Mt. Fuji.
While the sky was blue, there were some clouds in the sky, so we were not able to get a clear view of Mt. Fuji.
This here is the is the 中池 which is the most popular lake there as it is the deepest lake and it is almost transparent. Hence, you can see the fishes in it.
See how clear it is!
After strolling around a bit, we had lunch at 丸天 (Maruten).
They are famous for grilled trout, which was yummy.
The carp sashimi is also one of their popular items but I must say I did not enjoy this at all. I do not like sashimi with soft bones in them. The bones are painful to chew on and the meat is tough.
We were seated by the window and had a view of the garden.
Another famous dish there is the houtou.
A view of the garden from where we were seated.
After lunch, we drove to Arakurayama Sengen Park( 新倉山浅間公園) .
This place is highly popular and the parking area was full when we were there. Luckily, a car left and we took their spot.
You also need to queue in a long line to get up here. This is so that they can avoid crowd on the top deck. Every group is given several minutes to enjoy the view and snap some picture.
As you can see from our pictures, the sky was cloudy and the top of Mt. Fuji was blocked by clouds when we were there. This is pretty common in the day. To get a nice view of Mt. Fuji, one needs to visit early in the morning or near the evening.
Just when we thought that this was it and was ready to head home, the sky cleared up!
So we went back up for a second round.
This time, we were able to see the top of Mt. Fuji as the cloud slowly disperses.
I guess we were really lucky that day.
We waited the whole day to see the top of Mt. Fuji and it finally appeared!
Look at these beautiful pictures!
For dinner, we stopped by Sushi Hana (寿司華) on our way back.
This place is fancy.
We had to wait for a few minutes to be seated but we got a nice semi-private room for the 4 of us.
J and I shared this huge platter of sushi! The sushi was fresh and good.
The meal ended with some strawberry sherbet.
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