Last year, Koutaro Nagasaki, governor of Yamanashi Prefecture, stated, “By strongly promoting comprehensive safety measures for climbing Mount Fuji ... proper equipment, and above all, respect ...

“By strongly promoting comprehensive safety measures for climbing Mount Fuji, we will ensure that Mount ... attention due to wearing inappropriate gear like sandals and flip flops or by not ...

“By strongly promoting comprehensive safety measures for climbing Mount Fuji, we will ensure that Mount ... attention due to wearing inappropriate gear like sandals and flip flops or not ...

Mount Fuji is Japan’s tallest mountain ... that you agree to bring warm clothing, rain gear with a separate top and bottom (i.e. no single-piece rain ponchos), and “suitable footwear for climbing.” It ...

An inexperienced climber became stranded on Mount Fuji last week, after climbing to the top of the Japanese mountain and losing some of his climbing gear. As if that weren’t bad enough ...

This time, it was to retrieve his phone and gear. But somewhere along the ... and sudden weather shifts—climbing Mount Fuji outside the official season (which runs from early July to early ...

Reservations can be made on the official website for Mount Fuji climbers until the day of the climb, after agreeing to all seven rules, including wearing cold weather gear. From this year ...

Mount Fuji is Japan’s tallest mountain, and many would also say its most beautiful. But a less desirable superlative it’s also picked up in recent years is being Japan’s most notoriously crowded ...