Our Mount Fuji Travel Guide! What an incredible experience exploring the area around this Japanese icon. The towns and villages in the shadow of Mt Fuji are utterly unique. They move at a different ...

A steep, demanding hike, the descent from Fuji’s 12,389ft / 3,776m summit can be particularly taxing, especially on the knees. A new tram system would offer tired hikers a viable, risk-free ...

TOKYO — Japan’s iconic Mt. Fuji, known for its snowcap forming around this time of year, is still snowless in November for the first time in 130 years, presumably because of the unusually warm ...

Man flies around Mt. Fuji using jet-powered wing 00:45. The town of Fuji Kawaguchiko is known for its view of Mt. Fuji – but if local officials get their way, it won't be any more.

July doesn’t only mark the beginning of summer, it’s also the kick-off season for adventurous hikers who plan to conquer Mt Fuji (3,776m), the iconic peak that symbolises Japan.

Tourists looking to climb Mount Fuji will now have to pay a 2,000 yen ($13) fee per climber for entry. There will also be a cap of 4,000 visitors allowed to scale the mountain per day.

Mount Fuji is a UNESCO World heritage site, a world-famous landmark and an icon of Japan. But it has also become a “trash mountain” overcrowded by millions of tourists. To try and bring more ...