Those who want to climb one of the most popular trails on Japan’s iconic Mount Fuji will have to book a slot and pay a fee as crowds, littering and climbers who try to rush too fast to the ...

Local officials and mountaineering experts are warning against risky climbing practices on Mt. Fuji as more accidents have occurred in recent years. Four hikers died there just before the season's ...

Shizuoka Prefecture, one of the two gateways to Mount Fuji, is planning to introduce a new fee structure ranging between ...

There is a Japanese saying about this: A wise man will climb Mount Fuji once. Only a fool climbs it twice. I was climbing with my husband and son, at the tail end of an already booked visit to ...

The fee will be merged with a separate voluntary charge for conservation cooperation. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Currently each climber is asked to pay a voluntary fee of 1,000 yen to support conservation efforts. Read more at ...

Come summer of 2025, Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture may charge a Mount Fuji climbers fee entrance of up to HKD 251.

FUJI-YOSHIDA, Yamanashi Prefecture--The number of people attempting to “bullet climb” Mount Fuji overnight has dropped by around 80 percent on the Yoshida trail here, according to a city ...

Japan's Shizuoka perfecture is considering charging climbers to Mt Fuji JPY 3,000 ($19) to JPY 5,000 ($30) per head starting ...

SHIZUOKA, (Japan): Japan’s Shizuoka Prefecture plans to charge a toll of between 3,000 yen (US$19.35) and 5,000 yen (US$32.25 ...

Entry fees will be used for security personnel expenses and other purposes. The Yamanashi government introduced the entry fee ...

The prefectural government of Yamanashi plans to raise the entry fee for Mount Fuji climbers from the current ¥2,000 to ...