"A climb on the highest and holly mount of Japan is allowed only from the 1st of July to the 31st of September. During another time any ascention is extremely dangerous and in the winter it is equal to climb on Himalayan eighthousands´s ones!", I read this on some japanese web-pages. According to other information from some Europeans it is not so dramatic, but try to explain that to some Japanese:-). The mount is definitely high enough and lonesome in the wide area so it will be a reaaally windy mount. Konosuke promised to take me to the fifth station (2500m), but "Irca, do not climb to the top, please!"
  So we borrowed a car and went (me, Mame and Konosuke). Konosuke was smiling behind the wheel because driving is next to eating his great hobby. The weather wasn´t nice at all. It was raining in the morning, then the fog came, and as we started to ascend to the mount, the fog was thicker and thicker. Not so far before the fifth station it disappeared, but only so that we could see the nearby area.
  I offered to go to the sixth station, but "it was not possible because the journey was closed". So I tryed to offer another way, but "it was also not possible because it was against nature". Poor Konosuke! He was getting a headache because of me trying to go somewhere higher than the fifth station.:-)
  After a short walk around the fifth station we went for lunch to a local traditional restaurant with local traditional food served - a soup with everything inside. Then we visited university farm, from where you can also see Mt. Fuji. Here I saw a lot of nice animals but not any Fujisan.:-)
  From the farm we went for a tour around a few nearby lakes. I admired the really beautiful autumn here, read maples, glorious scenery. But Fujisan nowhere. Sometime he glanced a little bit out of the clouds, but it was everything he did. "That´s because Fuji-jama is a man and he is shy in front of you", explained Konosuke in the end. So maybe next time!