From Tokyo: Fuji & Kawaguchiko Private Tour, Onsen, Guide All Day

A fully private day from Tokyo to the quiet north side of Mount Fuji: your own fluent English-speaking guide, your own car. Your guide collects you at your hotel, walks every stop with you and drives you back. No driver waiting in the car while you go in alone.

The day: Oshino Hakkai's spring-fed ponds, early; the cedar avenue of Kitaguchi Hongu Fuji Sengen Shrine; Chureito Pagoda with Fuji behind it (about 400 steps); lunch, with hoto noodles to try; the thatched village of Saiko Iyashi no Sato; the Narusawa lava caves. Then an optional hot spring, back in Tokyo around 18:30. On request: the Itchiku Kubota Art Museum, or the Fuji 5th Station when the road is open.

Onsen: our usual one is Fuji Chobo no Yu Yurari. Its public baths do not accept tattoos; small covered tattoos are fine at another bath nearby; for any tattoos we book a private bath at extra cost, tell us early.

Paid on the day: lunch, small entry fees, museum, onsen. Pickup anywhere in Tokyo's 23 wards.