Mount Fuji is a UNESCO World heritage site ... an entry fee in 2023 as a way to manage the popular photo op. The snowy onsen town of Otaru has had to hire security guards to patrol the town ...

The ridge straddles the city of Fuefuki and the town of Fuji-Kawaguchiko, both in Yamanashi Prefecture. “Mount Fuji seen from ... such as dips at the Isawa Onsen hot spring resort and fruit ...

KOFU--The Yamanashi prefectural government is touting the economic ripple effects from its proposed plan to build a railway up to the fifth station of Mount Fuji, estimating that it could generate ...