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A Tokyo school counts the mornings it can see Mt. Fuji: 22 in 1965, 170 in 2023


Since 1963 a school rooftop in Kichijoji has looked for Mt. Fuji every morning at 9. Since 1894 the Kofu weather office has dated its first snow by eye. Sixty-one years of clear mornings and 132 first snows, drawn as one mountain.

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