Our destination was the tourist town of Kawaguchiko, famous for its view of Mount Fuji (or Fujisan, as the Japanese call the sacred mountain). At 3776 metres, it’s Japan’s highest mountain and renowned for being a bit camera-shy – it’s obscured by cloud for most of the year. We felt very lucky to get many fantastic views of the mountain. In fact, you really couldn’t miss it.

From our hotel rooftop early in the morning.

Zooming in up-close.

From the train station.

And the main road.

My favourite views were from the lakeside mid-morning.

It was a view to admire (or distract) while fishing.

And a spectacular accompaniment to autumn foliage.

And peeping from behind the hills.

By late afternoon the clouds had started to roll in, though it didn’t make the view any less spectacular. It almost made us forget that we were looking at a volcano (albeit a dormant one).