Within just a week of the fence being built ... The tourists, mostly foreigners, even dubbed the spot “Mt. Fuji Lawson.” "Kawaguchiko is a town built on tourism, and I welcome many visitors ...

FUJI-KAWAGUCHIKO, Yamanashi Prefecture—A large black plastic sheet was installed in front of a Lawson convenience store here to block views of Mount Fuji and prevent ill-mannered tourists from ...

One especially popular viewing location is outside a Lawson convenience store, from where photos taken at a certain angle would make it look as if Mt. Fuji was sitting atop the store roof.

leaving litter and stepping onto the road itself and disrupting traffic to get better snaps of Mount Fuji, which rises majestically over the roof of a Lawson convenience store. The black plastic ...