Kawaguchiko, Sai-ko

It is the wallpaper photograph of Mt. Fuji of winter seen from Kawaguchiko and Sai-ko.

Kawaguchiko is a lake in the altitude of 830m, and the area is 6.13 sq km. In the Five Lakes of Mount Fuji, it is a lake large subsequently to the 2nd in Yamanakako. The depth of water is 14.6m. Moreover, the circumference part of Kawaguchiko is also the gayest place also in the Five Lakes of Mount Fuji where a music box museum, a hotel, and a hotel stand in a row. Sai-ko is in the altitude of 900m, and area is the 4th size in the 2.12-sq km Five Lakes of Mount Fuji. Since depth of water has 71.2m and the becoming depth, in the Five Lakes of Mount Fuji, it is known as an ice-free lake which does not freeze along with Lake Motosu in winter. It is said that it was divided by the lava flow by the major volcanic eruption of Mt. Fuji in 864, and became the present form from the first although Sai-ko was connected with Lake Motosu or Shoji-ko. moreover, Lake Motosu and Sai-ko -- it is said that it is because this has space underground and is connected there when it is divided by a lava flow although - Shoji-ko is the feature that the water level of the surface of a lake is interlocking

Winter Fuji seen from before a hotel	Kawaguchiko and Ohashi, and Mt. Fuji of winter	Kawaguchiko	Sai-ko
Sai-ko and Mt. Fuji	Access	The wintry landscape of Sai-ko