Oshino Hakkai 忍野八海
Eight ponds born of Fuji's snowmelt, where pilgrims purified themselves before the climb.
Village in the municipality of Oshino, at the foot of Fuji; the eight ponds have been a national Natural Monument since 1934 and components of the Fuji UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2013. From the Edo period the round of the eight ponds was a stop on the Fuji pilgrimage for the purification rite (misogi), codified in 1843. A legend has it that an ancient lake split in two (Lake Yamanaka and these ponds) in the eruptions of 800–802, but modern geological surveys do not confirm it.
Yamanashi
Oshino Hakkai, Bus A1 to gotemba station, Bus A1 to Kawaguchiko
