Kanagawa Weather Forecast

Considerably. Hakone sits 700-1,000m up, so it runs 5-8°C cooler, collects far more rain and cloud, and can be fogged in when the coast is clear. It is the reason a Fuji view from Lake Ashi is never a given, whatever the coastal forecast says.

Winter, by a wide margin. December to February bring the driest, clearest air of the year, and early morning beats afternoon on any given day. Summer haze can hide the mountain for weeks at a stretch.

Warm and humid but tempered by sea breeze — Kamakura and Enoshima sit in the low 30s°C in August, with beaches open from early July. The September typhoon swells are what surfers wait for and swimmers should not.