I would hope that the Designers @ Zwift HQ would make working on the next phase of the Makuri Islands a priority (as opposed to adding just another new world). To that end, I have attached a possible Phase IV map to help you guys get started…
There’s already a bridge - with roadworks - in Urukazi and Mt Fuji can be seen in the distance.
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Mt. Fuji’s been there since Makuri first launched a year and a half ago, always lurking in the background… teasing us
Yeah but now there are least seems to be a “direction” we could be taking towards it. It would be at the top of the map above rather than to the left (West) of Urukazi.
Yep, necessary - as a gravel climb, preferably with a nice paved path beside it for runners only to use. 
(Sarcasm off)
A simple bit of triangulation from a couple of locations in Yumezi and Urukazi shows where the designers at Zwift HQ thinks Mt Fuji should be in the overall scheme of things.
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Agreed on the direction you are showing!
Go into the jungle in Watopia and there is the road closed off directly against a rock face, for years teasing us about a potential tunnel straight to ADZ…
Maybe they could introduce Mt Fuji as a special access road that you have to pay a toll to ride on - each lap costs a certain amount of drops?
This would be a way to help prevent riders getting 50,000,000 drops without doing a drops reset (like the XP reset).
Hey, maybe they could do a shortcut tunnel to ADZ and charge drops to use it! 
If I remember correctly this should depict a landslide on the road and we are guided around it over gravel.
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I hope it comes soon, hopefully Mt. Fuji will be in the This Season on Zwift [March 2023] announcement! It’s been there for years and hopefully it’s finally done soon! I would LOVE IT!!!
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I want an underground/indoors crit course under the robot factory on Mech Island. There are at least two entrances to some tunnels already next to the road.
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Fuji is here!!!
Probably not what people were hoping for . 
I really hope Zwift add Mt Fuji to Makuri, it would be such a great addition to Zwift and make makuri a much more well rounded world.
Personally I like Ventoux, I would ride it any day of the week compared to a long climb portal climb, but compared to the Alpe, Ventoux is less engaging (doesn’t have hairpin/distance laps on the side to keep you motivated) and is a much harder climb than the Alpe mentally do to the relentless steep gradients.
I suspect a well done Mt Fuji in Makuri would be much more popular than Ventoux and could even surpass the Alpe in terms of popularity, due to a number of reosons: it is a less steep climb (compared to the Alpe and Ventoux) wich opens the door for a climb wich can be incorporated into more rides for the average Zwifter. If the much hinted at kaiju vs giant robot battle takes place on the climb it can be quite a visual engaging experience not to mention many orther visual elements wich could be added (hot springs, vilages, lava and smoke as it is a volcano, transitions through MANY climate zones- Tropical at bottom, then more like Yumezi, then more forested, then maybe snow covered parts and at the top a lava covered landscape) there could also be trucks/trains on the side bringing support and replacement parts for the robot). The climb could also maybe have a few off shoots lower down wich could end with their own KOM banners so that Makuri can have a varied lengths of climbs all the way up to the HC cat full Fuji.
Lastly Zwift could break up the climb in to smaller parts similar to the hairpin segments of the alpe to help motivate zwifters with smaller targets as they work their way to the top.
As stated earlier I really hope Zwift adds Fuji, I’ve been eagerly waiting for its addition since the Yumezi was released (nearly 4 years)
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