Walking Fujinomiya: Shrine, Springs, Noodles

November 7, 2026

Walking Tours in Fujinomiya

No company runs scheduled walking tours of Fujinomiya, and you do not need one. The town centre is compact, its main sights sit within a short walk of the station, and two countryside walks are a bus ride away. Here is a self-guided route plus the options outside town. Prices are in Japanese yen.

The town walk: station, shrine and spring

Allow two to three hours at a relaxed pace, including time inside.

1. JR Fujinomiya Station. Fujinomiya is on the JR Minobu Line, about 20 minutes from JR Fuji Station. From the station, Fujisan Hongu Sengen Taisha is 10 to 15 minutes on foot; a local bus also covers the short hop.

2. Mt. Fuji World Heritage Centre. Stop first at the centre next to the shrine. Its spiral slope rises from the first floor to the fifth, so you climb a symbolic Mount Fuji on foot before reaching a top-floor hall that frames the real one. Adults pay 500 yen; under-16s, over-70s and students enter free. It opens at 09:00 and closes at 17:00 (18:00 in July and August), with last entry half an hour before, and it is shut on the third Tuesday of the month. Hours are on the centre’s website .

3. Fujisan Hongu Sengen Taisha. Enter the head shrine of about 1,300 Sengen shrines through its torii gates. Rinse your hands at the purification basin and pay your respects at the hall with two bows, two claps and one bow. The main hall dates from 1604. Entry is free, and gate hours run from early morning to evening, a little shorter in winter.

4. Wakutama Pond. Inside the grounds, Fuji’s spring water wells up clear and cold into the pond, a Special Natural Monument and the source of the Kanda River. This is where pilgrims once purified themselves before the climb. Look, take photographs, and stay out of the water.

5. Omiya Yokocho. End across from the shrine at this small food court, where several stalls cook Fujinomiya yakisoba: firm steamed noodles, pork crackling called niku-kasu, cabbage and a sprinkle of dried fish powder. Stall hours vary.

In festival season

On 3 to 5 November the streets around the shrine fill with floats for Fujinomiya Matsuri, and on 5 May mounted archers ride the long avenue of cherry trees in the shrine grounds for the Yabusame festival. Walking is the easiest way to get around town on those days.

Countryside walks by bus

Lake Tanuki. A lakeside path of about 3.3 km circles Lake Tanuki on the Asagiri Plateau, with Mount Fuji across the water. It is an easy loop of about an hour. Buses bound for Kyukamura leave from the terminal at JR Fujinomiya Station.

Shiraito Falls. Shiraito Falls is about 30 minutes by bus and too far to walk from town. From the car park it is about five minutes to Otodome Falls and five more to Shiraito, with about 100 steps down to the basin. Wear shoes with grip, because the spray keeps the steps wet. Details are on the tourist association’s falls page .

What a walk here is not

Mount Fuji’s trails are not a casual walk. The Fujinomiya Trail is a steep, high-altitude climb that is open only in the summer season (10 July to 10 September in 2026), with registration and a 4,000 yen entry fee. The road to the 5th Station also closes in winter, usually from mid-November to late April.

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