Learn how a Japanese town is curbing over-tourism with a barrier to Mount Fuji. The small resort town ... the barrier is going to be a series of nets, fences and poles. The net is eight feet ...

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

March 2024 was the country’s all-time biggest tourism month ever, with more than three million foreign tourists entering the country. Many of them head straight to Mount Fuji, an icon of Japan ...

To try and bring more balance to this popular tourist attraction, Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures – who share Mount Fuji – have instituted new rules ahead of the 2025 climbing season ...

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 ...