[ 2024 Tokyo & Neighbouring Cycling (東京及近郊單車遊) ] [ Day 5 – Kawaguchiko & Oshino Hakkai ] [ 河口湖及忍野八海]
Day 5 – 河口湖及忍野八海
今日由朝去到晚，晨早去新宿坐8:25的高速巴士去河口湖，由於塞車，原本2個小時多的車程變成差不多4小時。原本預訂下午3時的回程車票要取消，再定4時半的。
大概12時許才抵達河口湖站，快快將部車組裝好，在便利買了個三文治作午餐，吃完便踩去湖邊出發。環河口湖不用20公里，開始1/3路程是可以見到富士山，所以行人道都比較整齊。其他路段行人路況相對參差，甚至沒有行道要在馬路上踩，但車流不大。間中岸邊有些公園可以沿着海邊踩，避開馬路。
不到2時便返抵河口湖站，開始踩去忍野八海，單程大概是10公里，總共有兩個爬坡。壹個是由河口湖去富士急樂園約爬升50米。另外壹個是爬升100米去忍野八海的路口。過了富士急樂園後，我選擇了壹段小路，避開了繁忙的公路。
不用壹小時便抵達忍野八海，去年旅遊時亦來過，可惜當時下大兩，臨離開才放晴及看到富士山。今天天氣不錯，但遊人太多，聽口音外國人及本地人都有，逗留不到15分鐘便離開。
4時前返回河口湖，特登去著名的便利店打卡，布幕都已撤除。乘坐4:30的高速巴士返回新宿，又遇到了大塞車，用了差不多4小時才抵達新宿車站。返抵酒店已9時了，怱忙在酒店附近吃晚餐。
Day 5 – Lake Kawaguchi and Oshino Hakkai
Today I went to Shinjuku in the morning and took the 8:25 highway bus to Lake Kawaguchi. Due to traffic jams, the original journey of over 2 hours turned into almost 4 hours. The return ticket originally booked for 3pm had to be cancelled and rescheduled for 4:30pm.
I arrived at Kawaguchiko Station around 12:00 pm and quickly assembled the bike, bought a sandwich at a convenience store for lunch and then headed to the lake to set off. It only took less than 20km to go around Lake Kawaguchi. I can see Mount Fuji in the first 1/3 of the way, so the pedestrian paths were relatively neat. Pedestrian path conditions on other sections of the road were relatively uneven and there were even no sidewalks to ride on, but the traffic was not heavy. Occasionally there were some parks on the shore where you could ride along the seaside and avoid the road.
I returned to Kawaguchiko Station in less than 2 hours and started to go to Oshino Hakkai. The one-way trip was about 10km with a total of two climbs. One was from Lake Kawaguchi to Fuji-Q Highland about 50m elevation. The other one was to climb 100m to the intersection of Oshino Hakkai. After passing Fuji-Q Highland, I chose a small road to avoid the busy highway.
It took less than an hour to arrive at Oshino Hakkai. I also came here last year when I was a tourist. Unfortunately, it was rainning heavily and only before we left that the weather cleared and we could see Mount Fuji. The weather was very nice today but there were too many tourists, both foreigners and locals, and I left after only 15 minutes.
Returning to Kawaguchiko before 4:00pm and went to check in at a famous convenience store, the curtains were all removed. I took the highway bus back to Shinjuku at 4:30pm, but encountered heavy traffic jam again, and it took almost 4 hours to arrive at Shinjuku Station. It was already 9:00pm when I arrived back at the hotel and hurriedly had dinner near the hotel.