Despite an overall decrease in Mount Fuji climbers this summer, Shizuoka Prefecture has reported ... access limit and fee at the Yoshida trail in Yamanashi Prefecture, the most popular route ...

Mount Fuji, one of Japan’s most popular attractions, is facing growing pressures from overtourism. As 2024 has seen record-breaking visitor numbers, the iconic mountain is struggling to balance ...

Local banks in Shizuoka and Yamanashi sell package tours for the prefectures to Philippines BDO credit card and debit card ...

Mount Fuji, which straddles Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures, is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Japan. Pollution from the constant stream of tourist buses and cars arriving at ...

The council is made up of officials from the central government and the prefectural governments of Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures, whose border the mountain straddles, and neighboring Kanagawa ...

The line will pass through seven prefectures -- Tokyo, Kanagawa, Yamanashi, Shizuoka, Nagano, Gifu and Aichi. The budget for the entire project is about $85 billion. About one-third of that sum ...

Last year, Yamanashi Prefecture, one of the two prefectures in which Mount Fuji stands, introduced a mandatory hiking fee for those heading up the symbol of Japan. Now Shizuoka, the other prefecture ...