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Everything’s more fun with Mt. Fuji
Yamanashi Prefecture
More than just climbing, experience wake boarding and stand up paddle boarding in the beautiful Fujigoko, the Five Fuji Lakes. Or enjoy Fuji-Q Highland, one of Japan’s most popular amusements parks. Everything is more fun with Mt. Fuji in the background.
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Yamanashi Prefecture
3,776 meters of a perfect volcanic cone. Mt. Fuji is an icon of Japan and a UNESCO World Heritage site that’s impressive from any direction.
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Yamanashi Prefecture
Yamanashi has peaches. The most peaches in Japan.
All through the summer, people come to Yamanashi to pick peaches and enjoy the sweet, fresh juiciness. For your friends who can’t join you picking fresh peaches, there are lots of delicious fruit jams and jellies you can take home to share.
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Hokuto City, Yamanashi. Surrounded by mountains in Japan’s Southern Alps, the area is famous for delicious water.
Traditionally used in brewing Japanese sake, the same waters are now used for distilling world famous Japanese whiskeys, too. In Hokuto, you can have both, to taste and experience how craftsmanship, time and delicious waters combine to make something truly worth the trip.
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Yamanashi specialties: Autumn leaves, peaches and grapes
Yamanashi Prefecture
Shosenkyo Gorge, one of the most beautiful canyons in Japan, is a major tourist attraction of Yamanashi Prefecture as well as a Japan Heritage site. There is a walkway that goes past beautifully colored leaves, rocks in various shapes, and a clear stream. Sengataki Waterfall in particular is the most famous spot in Shosenkyo Gorge. This magnificent waterfall, thirty meters high, is one of Japan's top 100 waterfalls.
Yamanashi Prefecture is also known for peaches and grapes. Yamanashi produce is very popular in Japan. The climate of Yamanashi is suitable for growing high quality fruit. In spring and summer, there are a lot of tourists for fruit-picking, who enjoy freshly picked Yamanashi fruit.