Many tourists who arrive in Japan put climbing Mount Fuji high ... Climbers rest and drink water almost every 30 minutes. The rocky landscape at Mt. Fuji's 7th station makes it one of toughest ...

The sheltered, gently sloping foothills around Mount Fuji provide the perfect ... and rice terraces into a landscape more reminiscent of Tuscany than Japan. Vines carpet the slopes, mostly growing ...

Mount Fuji is divided into 10 stations, and there are four “5th stations” halfway up the mountain from where the Yoshida, Fujinomiya, Subashiri, and Gotemba trails start to the top.

Mount Fuji is many things to Japan – including, it's sometimes forgotten, the nation's largest active volcano. The last eruption was more than three centuries ago, but with every passing year ...

Last year, Yamanashi Prefecture, one of the two prefectures in which Mount Fuji stands, introduced a mandatory hiking fee for those heading up the symbol of Japan. Now Shizuoka, the other prefecture ...

Mount Fuji, a 12,000-foot peak located on the Japanese island of Honshu, is still lacking any measurable snow, extending a ...

Researchers in Japan have confirmed microplastics are present ... In a study published in Environmental Chemistry Letters, scientists climbed Mount Fuji and Mount Oyama to collect water from ...