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 – but if local officials get their way, it won't be any more. After too many tourists flocked to the small town to get a glimpse of the iconic mountain skyline, local officials decided to ...

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 ...