As 2024 has seen record-breaking visitor numbers, the iconic mountain is struggling to balance tourism with preservation. In ...

The new fences, scheduled to be installed in December, will be the first on the convenience store side of the road.

A central Japan town plans to put up new fences along a road in front of a Lawson convenience store offering scenic views of ...

FUJI-KAWAGUCHIKO, Yamanashi Prefecture--The hope here is that badly behaved foreign tourists have learned their lesson and ...

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

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

Japan's Mount Fuji has finally been coated in white after it saw its first-ever recorded snow-free October. The mountain ...

Japan’s Yamanashi prefectural government plans to raise the entry fee for climbers of Mount Fuji, the country’s tallest ...

Yamanashi Prefecture has abandoned plans for a Mount Fuji railway line and is instead considering a rubber-tired tram system ...

More than 300,000 hikers ascend Mount Fuji every year, creating congestion, overcrowding, and pollution on the trails ...

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

In April, a Lawson convenience store in the town of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, made news around Japan after ...