Workers set up a gate at the fifth station for a trail to Mt. Fuji, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi prefecture, Japan, on Monday. The crowd-control gate was installed halfway up the slope on Japan’s ...

The gate, which was finished Monday, will be closed between 4 p.m. and 3 a.m., and a maximum of 4,000 climbers will be allowed to enter the most popular trail daily.

Local authorities found holes just a week after a giant black mesh barrier was mounted in Fujikawaguchiko to block a popular view of Mount Fuji in the background of a convenience store.

A gate at the 5th station for a trail to Mt. Fuji, is set up in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi prefecture, Japan Monday, June 17, 2024.

The gate, which was finished Monday, will be closed between 4 p.m. and 3 a.m., and a maximum of 4,000 climbers will be allowed to enter the most popular trail daily.

A crowd-control gate was installed halfway up Japan's Mount Fuji on Monday ahead of the July 1 start of this year's climbing season, but the governor of Yamanashi, one of the two prefectures that ...

The gate, which was finished Monday, will be closed between 4 p.m. and 3 a.m., and a maximum of 4,000 climbers will be allowed to enter the most popular trail daily.

A crowd-control gate was installed halfway up Japan's Mount Fuji on Monday ahead of the July 1 start of this year's climbing season, but the governor of Yamanashi, one of the two prefectures that ...

The gate, which was finished Monday, will be closed between 4 p.m. and 3 a.m., and a maximum of 4,000 climbers will be allowed to enter the most popular trail daily.

The gate, which was finished Monday, will be closed between 4 p.m. and 3 a.m., and a maximum of 4,000 climbers will be allowed to enter the most popular trail daily.