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 ...

Interest in climbing Mt. Fuji is soaring. But experts say only highly skilled and well-prepared hikers should attempt to scale Japan's iconic peak off-season. The four trails leading to the summit ...

Yamanashi Prefecture, one of the two prefectures in which Mount Fuji stands, introduced a mandatory hiking fee for those ...

Mount Fuji, one of Japan’s most popular attractions ... There are currently two prefectures for climbing Mount Fuji: Yamanashi and Shizuoka. While Yamanashi Prefecture has long charged climbers ...

Three bodies were discovered inside a crater at the summit of Japan's Mount Fuji ... after being found by police while climbing the mountain. Mount Fuji is a popular but challenging destination ...

The proposal for an entry fee for Japan's highest mountain ... a voluntary registration system for Mount Fuji climbers during this year's climbing season, had been considering collecting an ...

Climbers using the most popular trail on Mt. Fuji are expected to be slugged with a doubled fee of 4,000 yen ($26) from next ...

Mount Fuji, south-west of Tokyo, is Japan's highest mountain at 3,776m (12,460 ft). The volcano, which last erupted just over 300 years ago, is visible from the Japanese capital on a clear day.

Japan set a new record for visitor arrivals this year, receiving 33.38 million foreigners between January and November 2024 ...

A central Japan city at the foot of Mount Fuji has lost more than a month’s worth of winter days per year in the past decade due to global warming, a recent study by a US-based climate research ...

An essay by Ava Mounts about her experience climbing Japan’s Mount Fuji has been named the winner of the Spokesman-Review’s ...