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| Above, a Shinkansen (bullet train) view of Mount Fuji. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
The Yamanashi prefectural government, in an effort to curb over tourism on Mount Fuji, has voted to implement fees and a cap on the number of people climbing the mountain per day.
USA Today reported:
Tourists looking to climb Mount Fuji will now have to pay a 2,000 yen ($13) fee per climber for entry. There will also be a cap of 4,000 visitors allowed to scale the mountain per day.
Likewise, stricter guidelines will be put in place to control the people who do hit the trails, including official guides who will supervise the trails and advise people who are engaging in dangerous or inappropriate behaviors such as sleeping beside the trails or wearing sandals for the hike (a more common problem than you'd think.)
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1 comment:
Sad to see the governments in Japan are following the trend and trying to regulate people to death. Some bureaucrat is going to turn you away because you're not wearing their approved Mount Fuji Climb Ensemble? And to blame tourists for not respecting the "sacred" mountain??? I first climbed in 1985, long before "over tourism" was even a (stupid) concept, and parts of Fuji resembled a garbage dump. This is all a function of bloated government bureaucracies having long ago run out of sensible, necessary regulations and so now they sit around all day trying to find new "problems" only to justify their continued employment. Leave people alone, and get a real job, you parasites!!
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