Mount Fuji and Lake Kawaguchiko hoto is a food day trips in Tokyo.
Editorially verified June 2, 2026 by Elliot Marsh, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: Houtou Fudo's main shop is steps from Kawaguchiko Station. Pair with a Fuji ascending or descending view.
Day trip · 12 hours
Fuji across the bay from a hilltop of tea fields, the shogun's first tomb reached by ropeway, and the pine beach on the UNESCO list. Shizuoka by private van, no train ...
Day trip · 11 hours
Green tea rows running straight at Mount Fuji, and an hour with a farming family learning to brew it properly. Farm visit and tasting included. One fixed price per group.
Day trip · 12 hours
The Tunnel of Light - a mirror pool at the end of a tunnel in one of Japan's three great gorges - then sake tasting from 100 Niigata breweries and a station foot bath....
Chichibu in Saitama is the mountain town with the cult Chichibu Distillery, hand-cut Saitama soba and the Yakushido sake brewery. The single malt sells out.
TipChichibu Distillery tours need three-month-ahead booking. Walk the Banba-machi soba street and the Buko sake brewery.
Yokohama Chinatown near Tokyo is Japan's largest Chinatown, with 600 shops and restaurants over a 500-metre district. Cantonese, Sichuan, Taiwanese kitchens.
TipDirect from Shibuya on the Toyoko Line. Try yaki shoronpo at the Daihanten counter and Peking duck wraps at the corner stalls.
Kawagoe in Saitama is the Edo-period 'Little Edo' town with 30 preserved warehouses, the Kashiya Yokocho candy alley, and sweet-potato ice cream and dango.
TipWalk Kurazukuri Street first, then Kashiya Yokocho. Sweet-potato ice cream and the Toki no Kane bell tower are the photo stops.
Kamakura is the medieval temple town one hour south of Tokyo, with shojin Buddhist vegetarian lunches at Kencho-ji and the Komachi-dori snack street.
TipReserve shojin lunch at Hachi-no-ki two weeks ahead; otherwise the Komachi-dori shirasu rice bowls and dango stalls are the easier crawl.
Hakone in Kanagawa is the onsen ryokan town under Mount Fuji where the kaiseki dinner is the main event. Eat the multi-course meal in yukata before the bath.
TipBook a ryokan with two meals included; the kaiseki is the trip. Day-trip via Romance Car if overnight is too much.
Mount Takao west of Tokyo is the day-hike mountain where soba shops near the summit serve mountain-trail tororo soba. Cable car or chair lift up, walk down.
TipEat at Takahashiya at the base or the trailhead soba shops; the tororo (grated yam) soba is the local order.