[2024 Hokuto Attraction] Travel Guide for Mount Mizugaki (Updated Nov)
Mountains
Address:
Sutamacho Obi, Hokuto, Yamanashi 408-0101, Japan
Such a beauty of mountains
Mizukaki mountain is a Japan's 100 Famous Mountains 2,230 metres above sea level. The best time for hiking is June, when the rhodondon blooms, or the autumn leaves season. You can also hike for a day trip, but you can also spend the night in a mountain hut and admire the spiritual light the next morning, or also take a route to Mt. Kinpo and Mt. Ogawa. If the weather is good, you can see Mt. Fuji (3,776 m), the mountains of the Southern Alps, and Mt. Yatsugatake, including Mt. Akadake (2,899m) and Mt. Hegasa (2,524m) from the top of the mountain.
It takes about an hour to climb from the Zuikayama at the foot of the mountain to the Fujimihira hut on the middle of the hill, and you can climb to the top in about an hour and a half from the hut.