Every year at the Fuji Shibazakura Festival, a beautiful carpet of bright pink flowers rolls out beneath Japan’s tallest and most majestic mountain, Mt. Fuji. The Fuji Shibazakura Festival (Fuji ...

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 ...

There were about 3,800 bullet climbers on Mount Fuji this summer ... that he plans to improve the Yoshida trail up to the fifth station to disperse climbers.

Fuji, where he leads foreign climbers from the 5th station to the summit ... He says for him, Mt. Fuji symbolizes freedom, because there are no other mountains around it to block the view.

The Yamanashi and Shizuoka governments have set up gates at the fifth stations of all four trails on Mount Fuji, as a measure to ease crowding. The gates will be closed between 2 p.m. and 3 a.m ...

On a grey, rainy Saturday a steady stream of tour buses arrive at a base station of Japan's Mount Fuji depositing dozens ... "Subaru", the fifth and largest base station, had about four million ...