A proposed light rail transit service connecting the foot of Mount Fuji to its 5th station would be capable of transporting 3.36 million passengers annually, a recent report by a local government ...

Yamanashi Prefecture has abandoned plans for a Mount Fuji railway line and is instead considering a rubber-tired tram system to bring climbers to the mountain, Yamanashi Governor Kotaro Nagasaki ...

This multimodal route through the country’s Northern Alps is a great alternative to the similar journey around Mount Fuji — ...

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 ...

Approximately 300,000 people climb Mount Fuji every summer between July and ... as it is the most accessible from Tokyo and the nearest train stations. The starting points for each trail offer ...

Mount Fuji, which straddles Yamanashi and Shizuoka ... % from the roughly 140 billion yen ($895 million) estimated for the rail system, said the source. The new plan would allow the prefecture ...