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

The hope here is that badly behaved foreign tourists have learned their lesson and there will be no need to block views of ...

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

As part of an effort to combat the impact of overtourism on Mount Fuji, the prefecture devised a plan in 2021 that suggested ...

Tourists flocking to the Lawson Kawaguchiko Ekimae convenience store in Fujikawaguchiko Town, Yamanashi Prefecture, for the ...

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

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

The soaring popularity of a stunning destination in this country has sparked concerns of overtourism, with the local ...

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

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

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

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