Mount Fuji, a UNESCO World Heritage site and an icon of Japan, is putting new regulations in place for climbers.

Mount Fuji can be easily seen from multiple prefectures. But the Lawson site has been a particularly hot tourist spot since a social media influencer posted a shot of Japan’s tallest peak there ...

FUJI-KAWAGUCHIKO, Yamanashi Prefecture—Two municipalities at the foot of Mount Fuji plan to introduce an accommodation tax as early as 2026 to improve the local tourism industry and fight ...

where tourist arrivals fuelled by the weak yen were expected to set a new record in 2024, Kyoto banned tourists from certain alleys. The government set limits on people climbing Mount Fuji.

Japan also announced last year new regulations and a tourist tax for climbing Mount Fuji, a UNESCO World Heritage site, due to overcrowding. Still, the experts who spoke to BI said Japan should ...

Otani Kazuo, an official of the Yamanashi Prefecture Mount Fuji Conservation and Tourism Ecosystem Promotion Group, notes that the new regulations mark a significant change. He says he hopes ...

Icon, source of spiritual power, major tourist destination, subject of countless bathhouse murals. Mount Fuji is many things to Japan – including, it's sometimes forgotten, the nation's largest ...