Mount Fuji is a UNESCO World heritage site, a world-famous landmark and an icon of Japan. But it has also become a “trash mountain” overcrowded by millions of tourists. To try and bring more ...

“There are definitely too many people on the mountain at the moment; the numbers are much higher than before,” Sakurai laments to CNN Travel. When Mount Fuji was added to the list of UNESCO ...

Fuji a tourist magnet. Over the weekend, at the "5th Station" — roughly half-way up the mountain and the point at which most vehicles must stop — a line of tour buses disgorged scores of ...

Artists have immortalized it in works such as the Thirty-six Views Of Mount Fuji by 19th century painter and printmaker Hokusai. Halfway up the mountain, cars and buses load and unload ...