Hoshinoya Fuji

Hoshino Resorts opened this place as Japan's first attempt at serious luxury glamping, and it still sets the standard. Forty concrete-and-glass cabins step down a wooded slope above Lake Kawaguchi, each one angled so that the balcony frames Mount Fuji directly, with the Aokigahara forest and the lake in the middle distance.

Cabins are deliberately simple inside - a bed, a wood stove, a coffee grinder, a wall of glass - and much of the day is meant to be spent outside them. The Cloud Terrace is a stack of open decks with fire pits where guests take morning coffee and evening drinks, and the resort runs a programme of forest walks, canoeing, horse riding and campfire cooking that changes through the year.

Dinner is often cooked over fire: Dutch-oven dishes, venison, whatever the season supports. It is roughly two hours from central Tokyo, and the Fuji view depends entirely on the weather, which is clearest in the cold months.