According to prefectural data, five million ... the biggest problem facing Mount Fuji,” Masatake Izumi, a Yamanashi ...

Battling overtourism and littering, Mount Fuji will now double its tourist tax. Here's what travelers should know.

Yamanashi police had no comparable data. One local visitor said restrictions may be inevitable. "Any Japanese person would want to climb Mt Fuji at least once in their life," said 62-year-old Jun ...

Residents, suffering from overtourism, have called on officials to force visitors to cover more of the city’s tourism-related ... red Chureito Pagoda with Mount Fuji in the background.

Residents had complained about tourists blocking the sidewalk, leaving litter and stepping onto the road itself and disrupting traffic to get better snaps of Mount Fuji, which rises majestically ...