Trek
Non-technical walk-up (in season)
A walk-up. Fitness required, no mountaineering skills.
1–2 days
Fee / registration
All four trails now charge a ¥4,000 entry fee with advance booking and daily caps (Yoshida from 2024, extended to every trail in 2025).
Fujiyoshida
Crowds: high
Official season is early July to early September, when huts open and trails are snow-free. Off-season ascents are genuine winter mountaineering and frequently fatal for the unprepared.
In season, Fuji is a long switchbacked walk up volcanic gravel, traditionally timed to reach the crater rim for goraikō — sunrise. The classic plan sleeps a few hours in an eighth-station hut and summits in the dark among headlamp streams. It is crowded, stark, and unforgettable in equal measure. Altitude touches many climbers despite the modest height, because the ascent is so fast.
The Khumbu's favourite first 6,000er — a trek through Everest country capped by a real summit morning.
The highest of Nepal's trekking peaks — maximum altitude for minimum technicality, with a five-8,000er view.
The classic first 7,000er — technically moderate slopes where altitude and weather do all the fighting.