Interest in climbing Mt. Fuji is soaring. But experts say only highly skilled and well-prepared hikers should attempt to scale Japan's iconic peak off-season. The four trails leading to the summit ...

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 ...

There is an old Japanese saying that to climb Fuji once is wise, to climb it twice is to proclaim oneself a fool.” ...

Every summer, hundreds of thousands of climbers from around the world travel to Mt. Fuji to scale Japan ... After claiming cherry blossom season this spring, the coronavirus outbreak is now ...

Sakura in Japanese is 桜 or 櫻 ... and head to the 6 th station of Mount Fuji. Running through the glorious onsen town of Kinosaki is the Otani River. The numerous Sakura trees that line ...

TOKYO: Three people were found without vital signs near the summit of Mount Fuji, Japanese media reported on Wednesday (June 26), just days before the summer climbing season begins. Authorities ...

On a grey, rainy Saturday a steady stream of tour buses arrive at a base station of Japan's Mount Fuji depositing dozens of lightly dressed foreign tourists in front of souvenir shops and restaurants.