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 ...

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 ...

like Mt Fuji 5th Station, Arakurayama Sengen Park, Yamanakako Hot Spring, and more. Mt. Fuji Flower Festival & Ropeway & Fruit Picking Tour: Departing from Tokyo, this full-day tour includes a ...

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 ...

KOFU--The Yamanashi prefectural government announced on Dec. 20 a plan to cap the number of Mount Fuji climbers at 4,000 per day and set up a gate at the fifth station on the Yoshida trail.