Mount Fuji is many things to Japan – including ... It was home to Fujisengen Shrine, which served as the gateway to a mountain trail. After those fateful weeks in winter, nobody would pass ...

FUJIYOSHIDA, Yamanashi Prefecture--Park rangers on Japan's sacred Mount Fuji officially started this year's climbing season about 90 minutes before sunrise on Monday, levying new trail fees and ...

A fellow teacher and I went to the Japan Travel Bureau, where we booked trains to Mount Fuji and reserved a pension (bed-and-breakfast) on Lake Kawaguchi. Anticipation was high. Backpacks ready ...

Mt. Fuji’s climbing season typically lasts from July through August. During these two months, trails are crowded and mountain huts are packed, with people sleeping close to each other on the floor.

On a grey, rainy Saturday a steady stream of tour buses arrive at a base station of Japan's Mount Fuji ... the entrance to the Shinto shrine up ahead. Mt Fuji, which straddles Yamanashi and ...