A first visit to Japan, and where to begin? The woodblock prints by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) are a marvellous starting point: full of detail, life, landscape, incident, and social history, plus they can be seen outside Japan, for example in the British Museum and The Met. There is currently a wonderful, extensive Hokusai/Hiroshige exhibition in Kyoto which includes many views of Mount Fuji. If you are lucky, you can see it from the Tokaido Shinkansen (bullet train), although this is not guaranteed. This is Tanabata Festival in Edo, one of Hiroshige's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (1852).