FUJIYOSHIDA, Yamanashi Prefecture—The construction of a gate at the fifth station of Mount Fuji was completed on June 17, two weeks ahead of its use to stop crowds and unsafe climbing of Japan ...

A proposed light rail transit service connecting the foot of Mt. Fuji to its 5th ... The line would run along the Fuji Subaru Line, the toll road to the 5th station that serves as the starting ...

On June 18, ahead of the start of climbing season in July, busloads of tourists, including many from abroad, arrived at the fifth station of Mount Fuji here along the Fuji Subaru Line toll road.

He's spent the past 14 years working on Mt. Fuji, where he leads foreign climbers from the 5th station to the summit about 20 times a month during the summer. So far he has scaled the peak more ...

Fuji’s two home prefectures Yamanashi and Shizuoka. Mt. Fuji is divided into 10 stations, and there are four “5th stations” halfway up the mountain from where the four trails — the Yoshida ...

On a grey, rainy Saturday a steady stream of tour buses arrive at a base station of Japan's Mount Fuji depositing ... However, overcrowding has worsened. "Subaru", the fifth and largest base ...