Audio tour · Japan
Fuji
A self guided audio tour of Fuji.
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The app is on the App Store
A self guided audio tour of Fuji.
Fuji shapes the landscape long before you arrive. The mountain appears between tree lines and across lake surfaces, always at a remove, always enormous. The villages and hot spring towns around it carry a calm that comes from centuries of living in its shadow, and walking here feels like moving through something much older than any single sight.
In the app, 39 stops in Fuji are narrated aloud, about 1h 6m of listening across 5 walking routes, in 13 languages, offline once downloaded. Choose a route or build your own, then walk while a calm voice tells you the story of each stop. The app also maps 44 Instagram photo spots, social media photo locations with directions to where you stand for the shot.
The opening lines of a few narrations, straight from the tour.
"You are looking at a mountain that has inspired artists and poets for centuries."
"You are standing at the edge of a forest that grew from a disaster."
"The water in front of you fills the crater of a volcano."
"If you can hear screaming over the wind, you are in the right place."
"This was the first museum of its kind in Japan, an outdoor art collection, opened in 1969."
"You're standing right near a spot that has been protected since 1936."
Curated orders through the city. Or build your own and press Play All.
From the foot of Mount Fuji through the ancient pilgrimage town of Fujiyoshida to the famous Chureito Pagoda viewpoint high above the valley.
A journey through the haunting silence of Aokigahara forest to the frozen underworld of Narusawa Ice Cave and along the quiet western shores of Shoji and Motosu lakes.
A sweeping circuit around the caldera lake of Hakone, up through the steam vents of Owakudani and along the ridge to Hakone Shrine sitting quietly at the water's edge.
An afternoon among world-class sculpture gardens and intimate museum galleries tucked into the forested hills above Hakone.
From the curtain of Shiraito Falls and the rushing Otodome beside it, through ancient ruins and sacred temple grounds at the southern foot of Fuji.
Every stop is narrated. Walk them in any order, or follow a route. Open a category to see what is inside.