Originally Posted by
pointspinnacle
I would like to visit mt fuji and 5 lakes region at some point. Make sense to day trip that from osaka or tokyo?? Ideally on the way to Tokyo makes most sense probably but dont want to have our luggage with us for mt fuji.
You could send your luggage ahead to Tokyo, and spend a night in the Fuji area - I did this, and it worked very smoothly.